RSSOffice 2007 Gets 'Ultimate' Edition
By Nate Mook | Published May 26, 2006, 2:34 PM
Just as it is doing with Windows Vista, Microsoft announced this week at WinHEC it would add an Ultimate Edition to its Office 2007 lineup. The retail package is intended for customers who don't want to deal with the hassle of choosing specific Office components they may need, as it includes everything for $679 USD.
Office 2007 Ultimate will include the standard Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook applications, along with Microsoft Publisher, OneNote, InfoPath, Access and the new Groove collaboration suite. The suite is essentially a version of Office 2007 Enterprise that will be available to all customers, not just large businesses.
A Microsoft representative said the new SKU was created based on customer feedback.
Office Professional 2007, meanwhile, features the typical array of Office applications: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Access, and Publisher for $499 USD, or $329 USD when purchased as an upgrade. Office Small Business 2007 offers a similar lineup without Microsoft Access for $449 and $279 USD.
Office Standard 2007 will include the four basic applications as before: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for $399 and $239 USD. However, Microsoft has changed the SKU targeted at students and teachers, naming it Home and Student 2007 and replacing Outlook with OneNote. That version will now be available to all users for $149 USD.
On the operating system side, Microsoft will offer Windows Vista Ultimate, which combines all of the features of the Home Premium and Enterprise editions with even more functionality. Ultimate will feature Windows Media Center, Tablet PC support, integrated search, BitLocker disk encryption, Virtual PC, multi-language user interface support, and Services for UNIX.
Windows Vista Ultimate is expected to cost around $450 at retail, potentially increasing operating system revenues for Microsoft if customers opt for the complete package.
wow
softwares packages are getting more expensive than computer packages.
http://www.dell.com/cont...s=19&l=en&s=dhs
go figure
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|OO and Kubuntu for me.
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|Or, we all opt to switch over to Open Office and keep that $450.00 to spend on a better video card for our systems instead.
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|Well I think we can all agree the one thing everyone needs is a spell checker. The spelling errors in this thread are atrocious.
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|There are so much money yet to be made by Microsoft!! :)
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|Guys...
No-one's going to buy the Office Ultimate Edition. It'll be the standard edition, just like the SBE we buy now. $239 isn't any more than we paid for 2003 when it first came out.
Quit whining, and get over it.
Most of us won't even pay *that* much becuase we'll be smart and buy it with new hardware, or from a decent VAR.
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|ok that price is super nuts! I use office .x on my mac and it works great, but if they think i will upgrade for that price they have lost their mind.
Actually im in the process of switching over to IBM's Lotus SmartSuite in my workstation and im very happy with it. At microsofts prices i think ill just use Lotus for everything when my office .x becomes outdated and nonfunctional.
By the way IBM Lotus SmartSuite goes for 281USD and if a full suite and it comes with 12 months of maintance and telli-support, heck the people on the other end of the phone are from the good ole USA to boot!
Open office is great and all but it is really slugish comapared to Lotus. Also on the business end if it stops working right its nice to know there is an IBM support team a call away. I just miss the days that i could call IBM for my computer problems as well as software...man Lenovo stinks!
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|Outdated and nonfunctional? i'm still using office 97 and that does everything i need, when will people realise that for 99.99% of stuff you dont need to rush out and buy the latest version because the current version will still do everything you need, spending another $150 isnt going suddenly turn you into a super productive office genius or improve your typing speed.
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|Wow, they're sure going all out on the amount of different versions they provide aren't they... These endless different versions are starting to confuse my poor, simplistic brain.
I like Microsoft, and I'm not going to be shy to admit it. I use Outlook all day every day as my commication tool, Word for writing all my email, Excel for dealing with all my finances and business finance, and OneNote to make my life slightly more oganized than using 50 .txt files.
But I am getting a little irritated at all these different versions they're releasing. Will the next version of Office and 10 editions, and the next version of Windows (after Vista) have 20? Who knows. It really is getting a tad silly now.
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|Man, that's a ridiculous price. I'd be willing to ante up about $100 for the 'ultimate' edition and not a penny more.
This is going to be great news for OpenOffice community. I like OO, but its just so darn bulky and slow.
MS lost a lot of brownie points with me.
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|Thank goodness for crackers. Because they level the "playing ground" between the "little people" big disgusting unscrupulous companies like MS. Crackers are the representation of all that is noble and good. See, for us OpenOffice is great, but unfortunately 9 out of 10 of our sheep-clients "need" office because their basically idiots that cant seem to grasp that there is other software that can do the same effing exact thing that you're trying to do right now.
If it werent for those noble and worthy reverse-engineering geniuses, that MS's crap really would have been a *REDICULOUS* 679 USD for us. Now let me quote you our true prices that will remain that way as long as crackers live and breath (god bless them):
OpenOffice = 0 USD
MS Windows Vista = 0 USD
MS Office 2007 = 0 USD
All MS Products =0 USD
Those are OUR special deals. And again I'd like to thank all crackers out there for helping to put a (even if it is tiny) dent in MS profits and the profits of all non-worthy companies and putting the power where it really belongs, which is in the small-business and consumers hands, and NOT multi-gazillion dollar monopolies that try to force their sh*t down our throats and make our lives excrutiatingly difficult if we don't have their crap on our systems.
So now we DO have their crap on our systems. For just the right price. ;)
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|get a job?
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|Amen on this one. $680?? Absolutely absurd.
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|Good points, all, but MS Office would not be so popular if OpenOffice wasn't 12-year old technology. Now that Office 2007 will be using XML with its .docx format, you can't carp about it being closed anymore. I'm sure OpenOffice will catch up to Office 2007... by 2028!
PS: Cracking is a direct response to overpriced software (how many of us know anyone who actually paid $650 for Photoshop?). Microsoft has made its money on its "Office Systems" ten times over, but it's time for the rich, fat jerks to jack up the stock price for a few quarters.
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|Another one who thinks he's a friggin' freedom fighter...
I hate to point it out, dude, but your not.
You are a drain on society.
A parasite. You leech off of others, and have nothing to show for it.
I hope you rot.
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|MSOffice's "Open XML" format isn't actually open. it is as closed as pervious binary office document formats were. now it just has "Open" in it's marketing name becuase it's using xml as it's base. IT IS STILL A PROPRIETARY FORMAT.
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|People need to recognize that MS has responded to prior critisism (and probably also that MA debacle) leveled at it's previous, Office 2003 version of an XML format. The OpenXML format that will be in Office 2007 is truly open, is already a preliminary standard at ECMA and will eventually be an ISO standard.
Don't believe me? Go forth mis-informed minstrals, and read the standard your self. There is nothing that is left out and nothing that anyone can't read for more than the cost of downloading it.
"But wait," splutters the peanut gallery, "MS has patents on the standard." Disregarding the fact that a great many technologies that you use every day, for free, are also patented note that MS has also published a legal document that says they won't ever sue or charge a licensing fee to anyone implementing or using the standard. In fact, the compeating Open Document Format is patented by SUn Microsystems. They have also published a covenent not to sue for use of their IP.
MS is very serious about there being an open format that everyone will use, even open source software. People need to recognize and stop blathering and fear mongering on here and digg and /.
See:
http://www.oasis-open.or...mmittees/office/ipr.php
http://www.microsoft.com...view/itpro/ecmafaq.mspx
The standard its self:
http://www.ecma-internat...t_work/TC45-2006-50.htm
Now if only people would read and be informed before spouting off and repeating the last rumors they heard on irc or aim or someone's dumb blog or whatever in public forums.
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|Hey, maybe the ulitmate means that when it crashes it will cause ultimate destruction to all your files. LOL
I think I'll stick to OpenOffice it cost $679 less than Office 2007 Ultimate Edition
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|Why does Office 2007 cost more the a PS3?
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|Only the Ultimate Edition does.
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|must have something to do with the fact it's easier for the end user to make money using a productivity suite than it is with a gaming system.
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|OpenOffice.org for $0 USD
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|Which is a basic program with a very basic interface that only provides about 10 percent of Microsoft Office's features.
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|Of which, only 5% are useful features.
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|Actually Open Office does about 80% of what MS office does. It's just not as pretty and most people will never use the extra 20%.
Office has become bloatware.
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|Yeah, being able to connetc to an exchange server sucks.
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|Actually, business people find it quite valuable to be able to *easily* share their calenders and scheadules and contacts and everything else that exchange does.
The exchange outlook web access doesn't hurt either ;)
Just be sure to put that exchange server behind a real mail server running on Unix/Linux that serves as a mail firewall/hub that does LDAP user lookups against active directory, strips windows malware, and gets rid of 99%+ of your spam. :)
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|Sorry.
I'll put the sarcasme tag in bold on there next time. (And try to avoid spelling errors.
We use exchange here. Thus Outlook is a requirement.
We also, unfortunately, use OWA for some of our users.
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|I just need Word, Excel, and OneNote, which the Home edition provides. I'm happy!
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|Microsft now a luxury product ? I want to see it with no bug and a lot of fun.
http://www.lapytsh.com
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|A million+ line of code Software Product with no bugs?
Yeah, sure.
As soon as we're done with that, I'll strap on my jetpack, hit the jump button on my time-dilating stopwatch, and drop it off for ya...
...just before you frigging die, genious.
In other words;
You do realize what you are asking is nigh impossible, right?
Just want to make sure you grasp the concept and are prepared for a life of disappointment.
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|War and Peace (the book) has a million odd lines of text and i bet you wont find one spelling error, the 'patch it later' mentality of a lot of software publishers is responsable for a lot of bad coding practice, the record as far as i am aware is 82 patch's to fix one security hole in an application costing the company $1 million+ - delay the release a few months and hire some more programers to debug the thing.
besides, would you buy a car that crashed every 50 miles if you didnt apply patch's to the engine management system every month?
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|Wow. Your analogies suck.
Cars haven't historically required software to run. But since it;s introduction, it has cause *all* kinds of problems. To shut-downs at 50MPh (Prius) to all kinds of issues with certain older BMw's (When they first started using software to control vehicle functions)
As for the book, It's been through about 20 revisions. I'm sure they've been using some form of spell/grammar check for a while. I can guarantee the original edition likely had quite a few errors in it.
Windows is gonna crash. Hackers are gonna find holes. If you think for one second *any* OS is 100% secure, you're an idiot.
Microsft has to program their OS to be compatible with literally *millions* of hardware and software configurations. 90% of the patches are either to stop malicious hackers, or to fix support for a specific piece of hardware. A negligable amount of patches have been released for *any* version of Widnows since Windows Update came into existance to fix any "broken" functionality within windows itself.
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|Comparing simple spellling erros [sic] to complex and concurrent algorithmic implementations is moronic at best. Sorry, please try again.
BTW, I catch spelling/gramatical errors all the time in the books I read.
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|seems everything comes in layers nowadays...
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|Operating systems and Office Suites (and Ogres) are like onions...
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|They stink?
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|You know what else has layers? Cake!!
Or parfaits! Everyone loves parfaits!
...Donkey, shut it!!
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