Universal Office Rumours?
Anyone heard anything about the next version of MS Office for Mac?
- release date?
- feature set?
- anything else?
Roz Ho and her team really look like idiots at this point. They investigate what is required to create VirtualPC for the Intel Mac while a little company like Parallels has turned out what is simply an awesome beta, soon to be a stable release. Things at Microsoft seem to be quite a mess with repeated delays on Vista, all the while with limited features. Microsoft Live looks about as interesting as mud. Their music service is with the relatively irrelevant 80s and 90s brand, MTV. If they don't manage to get a universal office out soon, they may just start losing us to iWork or even Open Office.
- release date?
- feature set?
- anything else?
Roz Ho and her team really look like idiots at this point. They investigate what is required to create VirtualPC for the Intel Mac while a little company like Parallels has turned out what is simply an awesome beta, soon to be a stable release. Things at Microsoft seem to be quite a mess with repeated delays on Vista, all the while with limited features. Microsoft Live looks about as interesting as mud. Their music service is with the relatively irrelevant 80s and 90s brand, MTV. If they don't manage to get a universal office out soon, they may just start losing us to iWork or even Open Office.
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On the Office side, I think MS is working hard on the project, but that there will be a lot of rewriting needed before it's ready. I doubt if the core programs are the most current around so I expect it might be early 2007 before we see it - just like with Adobe and some rather old code there.
The benefit of needing to start with a clean sheet of paper is that you can start with some modern concepts - meaning that we might get lucky (with both MS & Adobe) and see some rather good things when they finally deliver. Let's hope so!
Originally posted by netdog
If they don't manage to get a universal office out soon, they may just start losing us to iWork or even Open Office.
Well, I don't know what went down, but Apple is clearly not interested in competing with Office at this point in time. iWork seems to be a completely half ass attempt. Even an App like Aperture, which was apparantly fucked up internally is a far better effort.