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Microsoft Delays Office 2007 Slightly

By Nate Mook, BetaNews

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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By northstarallante

edited Jul 7, 2006 - 10:19 AM

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

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By stu2020

edited Jul 7, 2006 - 3:39 AM

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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By xyzcb1

posted Jun 30, 2006 - 11:06 AM

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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By wincement

posted Jul 3, 2006 - 12:12 PM

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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By PC_Tool

posted Jun 30, 2006 - 9:11 AM

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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By zridling

posted Jun 29, 2006 - 7:40 PM

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

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By xyzcb1

posted Jun 30, 2006 - 9:19 AM

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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By wincement

edited Jul 3, 2006 - 12:11 PM

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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By gawd21

posted Jun 29, 2006 - 7:32 PM

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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By paulm

edited Jun 30, 2006 - 3:16 AM

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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By spongy-poo

posted Jun 30, 2006 - 6:54 AM

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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By Metshrine

posted Jul 1, 2006 - 7:29 PM

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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By PC_Tool

edited Jun 30, 2006 - 6:10 PM

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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By smarterthanyou

posted Jun 30, 2006 - 2:56 AM

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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By themanhimself

posted Jun 29, 2006 - 6:29 PM

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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