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PowerPoint 2007: Office Delayed Again

Friday, June 30, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 12:01 pm

Microsoft Office 2007 may be delayed again, and that might be a good move after all, because we’re quite happy with Office 2003 and would rather wait and use a better release of Office 2007.

Here’s some thoughts from different media outlets.

Microsoft delays Office 2007 again

Microsoft said Thursday that it is making another slight delay to the planned arrival time for Office 2007, citing performance concerns with recent test versions. The software maker now plans to finish the code for the revamped Office suite by the end of the year, rather than in October, the date it set in March. The company said in March that it would wait to start selling Office until January, to coincide with the launch of Windows Vista. Now, though, it says Office may not be ready for store shelves until early 2007.

More hitches at Microsoft delay launch of new Office software

Microsoft has delayed the launch of its next Office software package while it tackles “performance issues”, in the latest in a series of hold-ups affecting the company’s key products. The group last night announced it is aiming to make the new version, Office 2007, available to business customers by the end of the year, rather than its earlier target of October.

Read more on the Guardian site (link no longer exists).

Microsoft delays Office ’07

The Office delay comes three months after Microsoft again pushed back the release of its flagship Windows Vista operating system, now scheduled for broad availability in January, missing the holiday shopping season. “The bottom line is Microsoft gives guidance, which businesses are trying to make plans around, but consistently is unable to meet the dates in the guidance,” said Joe Wilcox, a senior analyst at Jupiter Research. “At some point, that’s got to impact somebody’s confidence in Microsoft.”

Neuxpower Launches New Version of NXPowerLite

Thursday, June 29, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 7:56 am

Neuxpower Solutions announced new Server and Desktop versions of NXPowerLite, a presentation compression tool, at the C3 Expo in New York. NXPowerLite radically reduces the size of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, as well as StarOffice and OpenOffice presentations saved in the PowerPoint format by compressing the graphics and embedded documents contained within them, making them easier to manage, distribute and use.

PowerPoint 2007: Microsoft Office has Online Preview

Thursday, June 29, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 7:44 am

In a unique move, Microsoft has put up a trial of Office 2007 online on their site that uses a Citrix browser plug-in. It seems like a novel idea, because rather than download or get a CD of the beta, you can play with it through an online experience.

Several news sites have reported this development.

News24 com reported that the goal of the online preview is to let people play around with the software without going through the trouble of downloading the large beta versions, which are less reliable than final products. Still, to use the online demonstration, users may need to download a plug-in and must register with the company.

Ars Technica adds that once the test environment is set up, users can explore a limited Windows desktop running Office 2007. The preview can be described as a series of tutorials meant to highlight the new features of the Office 2007 System. For example, Outlook 2007 launches with a fully loaded inbox and a window devoted to telling you what you should try out.

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PowerPoint 2007: Microsoft Office Gets Creative Commons

Thursday, June 22, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:12 am

Microsoft and non-profit licensing organization Creative Commons said Wednesday that they had struck a deal to allow Office users to add the group’s licensing to their documents. Although the two companies have worked together in the past, this latest agreement is the most significant project to date. Such a deal could catapult Creative Commons from a fairly small user base to much wider acceptance as a method for protecting one’s work. Microsoft estimates that there are some 400 million Office users worldwide.

PowerPoint Live 2006

Wednesday, June 21, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 8:23 am

So, what is PowerPoint Live? It’s an annual event held in the United States every fall. All sorts of people use PowerPoint to create presentations of every imaginable type. PowerPoint Live is where all these people get together to learn more and share ideas. If that is all that PowerPoint Live did, we would still make sure we were there every year. But it’s so much more.