__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Sunday 09 July 2006 14:55 \__
> Office 2007 and Vista delayed due to open source interoperability?
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> | But let's review the facts again. On July 3, the Redmond giant announced
> | that Office 2007 will not ship in January 2007, but in "early 2007." For
> | the large public of course. For the corporate customers, they say Office
> | 2007 will be available "by the end of 2006", after they had previously
> | mentioned November 2006 as a certain date. This year, Office 2007 was
> | destined to make its public debut in March. Company officials decided
> | instead that it was better to ship it with Vista, so they pushed it all
> | the way back to Januay 2007, the (still...) official release date for
> | the famous OS.
> |
> | As reasons for the delay Microsoft cited "performance issues", that
> | almost every developer noticed after the Beta 2 testing session openeda
> | t WinHEC, in May. Analysts at Citigroup on Thursday said they expected
> | a further delay for the Vista operating system too, and that Office's
> | delay is just the signal.
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http://www.playfuls.com/news_03358_Office_2007_and_Vista_delayed_due_to_open_source_interoperability.html
Update:
http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6092487.html?part=rss&tag=6092487&subj=news
Gates: 20 percent chance for another Vista delay
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