Microsoft delays Office 2007 yet again

Posted June 30, 2006 at 03:55 AM by Doug Berger

Section: Computers, Software / Applications

After Microsoft reported over 2.5 million downloads of the Office 2007 beta, it looks like they may delay the productivity suite once again.  The most recent date given by the company is October 2006, however when Vista was delayed recently, they began talks of pushing Office further into the future as well.

Ars Technica: “Based on internal testing and the beta 2 feedback around product performance, we are revising our development schedule to deliver the 2007 system release by the end of year 2006, with broad general availability in early 2007.”

The coming release of an entirely new operating system and suite is frightening customer companies because the need for retraining employees.  Maybe the ”Ribbon” wasn’t such a good idea after-all.

Read [Ars Technica]