Comments on: Survey: Office 2007 demand aided by server software

More companies are switching to the latest version of Office, a survey shows. One reason: Demand for SharePoint Server, Microsoft's document management software.

[Commander_Spock]

When Is The Inaugural Flight Of The CONCORDE - Again!

"Microsoft's plan to drive Office adoption in big companies by linking the software to server-based products appears to be working..."

"Noisy" (ERR) EXCEL ACHILLES WHEELS (oops... HEELS) will always be "Noisy" (ERR) EXCEL ACHILLES WHEELS (oops... HEELS). LOL. :-) :-) :-)

Here is an extract from a 1998 Lotus Development Corporation communication; "Re: Concerning the issues with 1-2-3 that are talked about in the documentation you gave me, most of the issues are related to converting files between older and newer versions of product and converting documents between Lotus and Microsoft. Anytime a file is saved backwards or saved with an older file format than the format the file was created under, such as saving a 1-2-3 , 97 file for Windows 95 into a WK1 format for DOS, then naturally we are expected to loose certain features due to technology and features that are present now that were not present 8 - 10 years ago. Similarly, if we try to convert a file from Lotus into Excel or Excel into Lotus, due to differences in the products not every feature will be converted perfectly with the file filters that are available. Both Lotus and Microsoft create similar spreadsheet programs; however, there are several differences in both programs and these differences will remain to distinguish the products apart. We do try to design conversion filters that will allow as much of the file formats as possible to be exchanged and converted without disrupting the actual file design and format.

In one of your letters you made mention of the @IRR and @ERR functions in the 1-2-3 product. By design the @IRR (notably "absent" in Open Office) will calculate the Internal Rate of Return; where the @ERR is used in conjunction with other formulas, posted was an "ERR" showing an error was received in the calculations. As far as I can see in the program I cannot find an @ERR function that will allow us to calculate an Economic Rate of Return"

FLY the "QUIETER" (CONCORDE) FOR FREE - FLY IBM's LOTUS "SYMPHONY". :-$ :-$ :-$

[Maclover1]

Lotus products

blow chunks. NO ONE WANTS THEM.

[Vegaman_Dan]

This is great news for Lotus users!

All twelve of them.

EOM

[MMC Racing]

Not just Sharepoint

Exchange 2007 is driving Office 2007 deployment also. It would be an interesting stat to see how many of those Office 2007 adoptions are on XP.