Office 2008 - when?   

When is Office 2008 going to hit store shelves? Office 2007 has been 
out for ages? Why are Macintosh users getting screwed by having to use 
2004, which was written for PPC Macs and is old? How long does it take, 
Microsoft? Get your butts in gear.

date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:48:14 -0700   author:   Titus Pullo

Re: Office 2008 - when?   

Titus Pullo wrote:
> When is Office 2008 going to hit store shelves? Office 2007 has been out 
> for ages? Why are Macintosh users getting screwed by having to use 2004, 
> which was written for PPC Macs and is old? How long does it take, 
> Microsoft? Get your butts in gear.

Hi Titus!

Have a look at Microsoft's website <http://www.microsoft.com/mac>. It'll 
tell you when Office 2008 will be released.

As for Macintosh users "getting screwed", you need to understand how 
Office for Mac is developed. Office for Windows is developed and 
released first. Then, to ensure compatibility, Office 2008 is developed 
afterward and typically released about 6-8 months later. This has been 
the case for the last few versions. Also, Office:mac is being re-written 
as a Universal Binary to support Intel Macs. That's a lot of work in itself.

The original release date for Office 2008 was "second half of 2007" as 
announced at MacWorld in January 2007, however, development has slipped 
and it's slated to be released in January 2008 at MacWorld.

If you'll keep up with the announcements (there have been plenty) and 
also check in with the Mac Mojo blog <http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/> 
then you'll have plenty to read about and learn before Office 2008 is 
even released.

Hope this helps!

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:44:02 -0500   author:   William Smith

Re: Office 2008 - when?   

At least an Open Beta would pacify some of us w/ large font menus. I hate 
having to open Word on my Mav anymore, it can take well over 3 min. just to 
"Optimize the font menu," whatever that means.

"William Smith" wrote:

> Titus Pullo wrote:
> > When is Office 2008 going to hit store shelves? Office 2007 has been out 
> > for ages? Why are Macintosh users getting screwed by having to use 2004, 
> > which was written for PPC Macs and is old? How long does it take, 
> > Microsoft? Get your butts in gear.
> 
> Hi Titus!
> 
> Have a look at Microsoft's website <http://www.microsoft.com/mac>. It'll 
> tell you when Office 2008 will be released.
> 
> As for Macintosh users "getting screwed", you need to understand how 
> Office for Mac is developed. Office for Windows is developed and 
> released first. Then, to ensure compatibility, Office 2008 is developed 
> afterward and typically released about 6-8 months later. This has been 
> the case for the last few versions. Also, Office:mac is being re-written 
> as a Universal Binary to support Intel Macs. That's a lot of work in itself.
> 
> The original release date for Office 2008 was "second half of 2007" as 
> announced at MacWorld in January 2007, however, development has slipped 
> and it's slated to be released in January 2008 at MacWorld.
> 
> If you'll keep up with the announcements (there have been plenty) and 
> also check in with the Mac Mojo blog <http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/> 
> then you'll have plenty to read about and learn before Office 2008 is 
> even released.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> -- 
> 
> bill
> 
> William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
> Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
> Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
>

date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:56:01 -0700   author:   Jason