Microsoft Delays Office 2007 Slightly

By Nate Mook | Published June 29, 2006, 4:31 PM

Microsoft on Thursday acknowledged that it was pushing back Office 2007 from its scheduled October release to manufacturing. The company also backed away from promising a public launch in January, simply saying Office 2007 would arrive in "early 2007."

"Based on internal testing and beta 2 feedback around product performance, we are revising our development schedule to deliver the 2007 Microsoft Office system by the end of year 2006, with broad general availability in early 2007," a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews. "Feedback on quality and performance will ultimately determine the exact dates."

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When can we expect an Office 64bit beta release to match the Vista 64bit beta?

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I've been running 2007 Beta 2 for a few weeks now and am using some of the new features so often I don't know how I did without them. It is, however, INCREDIBLY slow. Outlook in particular is unstable and virtually brings my high spec system to a standstill. Take your time MS - get it right!

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I don't know what's the big deal of it. MS always delay their products. It's part of MS history.

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lol true.

It seems to be part of all software companies' history these days. Remember how long it took to get HL2!?

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Contrary to 'gawd21', I have the Office 2007 beta and have *yet* to run into any *bug* more serious than it being slow.

These delays look more like a smokescreen to delay the launch until, or just after Vista is released.

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Delay = taking the time to get it right. We can wait. We have the beta in the meantime.

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Right. Just do the Apple way, release an OS, and then release more "update" later. We will call these fixes "update" because service pack sounds problem with the system. Apple OS X only has 7 "updates" since it releases.

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Careful.

Everyone accuses MS of doing the exact same thing. I don't think you want to open that can of worms.

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As an Office beta tester, It will be at least three more years at the rate they are working to get half the bugs out. Office 2007 will be the buggiest office ever to be released!!!! It will only get worse.

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One thing I find really strange is the fact that Outlook 2007 crashes constantly under 32-bit Windows XP SP 2 and 64-bit Windows XP, even with a clean install of the OS. Outlook 2007 hasn't crashed once under Windows Vista Beta 2.

Otherwise, I haven't found any noticeable bugs at all in Word, Excel and Outlook.

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Here you go again gawd21. Whine, whine, whine. Whinge, whinge, whinge!
Why the hell are you beta testing Office 2007 and Vista when all you do is complain. Do us all a favour. Get a life and cancel your username and password to Betanews.
People like you waste good clean air!

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Better you should take your own advice, since your post contributed nothing to the discussion.

There are a lot of bugs unfixed, and unfortunately some of them may have been closed before they were solved.

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Name 'em. Other than it being slow, it's worked just fine for me at home. To the point I wish I could install it here at work.

...yeah, thought so.

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yes, please name some of these bugs that have rendered it useless or very very tedious to use aside from slowness associated with a beta?

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I hope that MS Expression becomes part of Office 2007, I have tried and tested parts of it and it rocks:)

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