MacVertigo Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I figured we can use this as a update page to discuss the news about Office 2008. I'm surprised that we haven't seen any torrents of the beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDee Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Why are surprised there is no leak? If you read the http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo blog, you will realize, there isn't a typical technical beta program for the Mac version of Office. Only a select few partners get access to the beta code outside of Microsoft, in fact, their testers are combination of employee's who work on the product or persons who have to come to the MacBU and test it at Microsoft's offices in their labs either in Redmond or Mountain View. So this pretty much makes it difficult leak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_C Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I'm not going to lie; I'm excited for Office. The Mac version has always been an excellent release, and I'm looking forward to a universal version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I'm looking forward to it too, mostly cause it will be a Universal app. I think the "My Day" app looks really cool too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Is there any concrete word yet on a release date? Everything I keep seeing says second half of '07. Translated from M$ though, that means that we should have it around Christmas '09. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev7en Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 I would like to know that too... no news from developers yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d70 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 I've been beta testing Entourage 2008 for a bit. For some reasons Microsoft didn't give us Word or any other products. I wonder how they decide who gets to test what??? Anyway, Entourage 2008 (June build I think) closely resembles Outlook 2007 in terms of features. I never used Entourage 2004 before so I can't compare those two. The Exchange integration seems tight. Search and MyDay still don't work. There is still no easy way to migrate from outlook db to entourage. So my archive pst is still on my PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrumBrum74 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Are you allowed to post some screenshots of Entourage 2008? How did you become a tester? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurferSD Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Office 2008 Coming January 2008 We announced today that Office 2008 for Mac will be released to manufacturing (“RTM”) this December, which will allow for retail availability in the US in mid-January (planning for Macworld), and allow us to deliver Office 2008 to our volume license customers and global customers in the first quarter of 2008. We had hoped to deliver the product in the second half of 2007 and as you know might imagine, this was a tough slip for us. Moving RTM to December means you, our customers, won’t have our product this year, and I am very clear a lot of folks are eagerly awaiting Office 2008. Slipping delays when our team can move on to our next release of Office for Mac - we’re working to get releases out on a more frequent basis, delivering more good stuff to Microsoft Mac customers more often. As tough as it is, I firmly believe that this slip is the right call for MacBU. Delivering Office at the right quality level is super important to the entire team and to Microsoft’s long standing commitment to the Mac platform, and it was clear from our June and July quality checkpoints that no matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t release our product in time for the Christmas season with the kind of quality we wanted. We’re in an “all hands on deck” mode right now to ensure Office 2008 gets finished on time, and so you will not see final versions of our RDC client or file format converters until sometime after we ship Office. Starting in September, we are planning a series of “sneak peeks” to show you more of the features and functionality of this release. I’m very pleased that we can soon start sharing more of what the team has been up to – stay tuned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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