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Technology Lifestyle It’s Official: Office 2007 goes gold, Vista next!
Technology Lifestyle It’s Official: Office 2007 goes gold, Vista next! | It’s Official: Office 2007 goes gold, Vista next! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Wednesday, 08 November 2006 | |
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Just as 13% of the market now uses Firefox, competitors to Office 2007 (and its previous versions, which are indeed competitors to Office 2007 as well) are growing in number every day. The simple fact is... if you like the idea of Office 2007, and can afford it, you’ll probably buy it. If you can’t, or even don’t want to buy it yet, you can keep on using whatever you’ve already got (which is probably a previous version of MS Office), or try one of the freeware alternatives. Either way, Microsoft is going to sell millions of copies of Office 2007, and it will be a big success. Let’s just hope it really spurs on the competition from everyone else so the next generations of office suites from everyone respectively break large amounts of new ground. Office 2007 has gone through one of the largest beta testing programs in the world, with over 3.5 million people deciding to download the second beta and try it out for themselves, providing valuable feedback to Microsoft along the way. To help spur sales to the general public, which are probably more difficult to convince than most corporate customers, Microsoft will be starting an Office 2007 trial download program from December 1st in the US and Canada. Although customers will not be able to buy a boxed copy of Office until the January timeframe, almost anyone interested in Office will be able to download the free trial version during December. Very soon after that, the program will commence in 13 other countries including Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Mexico, Irelane and Luxembourg, with more countries to follow after that. The trial program will be available to try free of charge, with other products in the Office range also set to be made available (besides the main Office 2007 programs). These include programs such as Project, Publisher, Visio and in the US only, Office Accounting Professional 2007. You’ll be allowed to run the trial software for 60 days after the first time you install and activate the trial, after which you’ll still be able to view and print existing files, but will be unable to create new files, modify existing ones or save any changes you make. To buy the software, you’ll need to run through a short and simple process on Office Online, likely involving your credit card, or you’ll need to buy the software from a local retailer and re-install it on your computer. A massive amount of helpful information is built into the new version. 50,000 help articles are now included as standard, a ‘how-to’ section takes you through 35 different demonstrations, there are 24 new courses that you can do online training with, over 400 new templates are available for download and there’s plenty more at the Office Online site. As reported on Paul Thurrott's website, Microsoft president Jeff Raikes, the man that oversees Microsoft's business division, said: "We've crossed the development finish line, and the team deserves to celebrate. The 2007 Microsoft Office System RTM completes the most significant improvements to the products in more than a decade. It's rewarding to be able to send this release off to our customers and help them take the next big leap forward in productivity." Microsoft Office may well be facing its biggest competitive threats, on multiple fronts, in more than a decade. But Office 2007 breaks new ground, and is an important milestone that signals the next-generation of software is arriving to take advantage of next-generation operating systems and computer hardware. Strap yourselves in, it’s going to be quite a ride! {moscomment} |
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