Next version of MAC Office/Entourage

[bcoz]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Email Client: Exchange Does anyone know when there will be a new version of MAC Office/Entourage. Say Entourage 2010. Does Microsoft realize how far behind it is falling taking years between upgrades.

 

[Michel Bintener]

The next version of Office for Mac has already been announced, and it is
set to be released for the holiday season in 2010 (i.e. around
December). Microsoft has also announced that Entourage is going to be
replaced with Outlook for Mac.

As for the "taking years between upgrades": Office 2008 was released in
January 2008; with Office 2011 being released at the end of 2010, the
Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft manages to adhere to the
traditional 3-year-cycle between releases of Office for Mac. The last
version, Office 2008, took 4 years, largely because of the transition
from PowerPC to Universal Binary.

 

[bcoz]

The next version of Office for Mac has already been announced, and it is

> set to be released for the holiday season in 2010 (i.e. around
> December). Microsoft has also announced that Entourage is going to be
> replaced with Outlook for Mac.
>
> As for the "taking years between upgrades": Office 2008 was released in
> January 2008; with Office 2011 being released at the end of 2010, the
> Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft manages to adhere to the
> traditional 3-year-cycle between releases of Office for Mac. The last
> version, Office 2008, took 4 years, largely because of the transition
> from PowerPC to Universal Binary.
>

>
> --
> Michel Bintener
> Microsoft MVP (Macintosh)
>
> *** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***
>

Thank you very much!

Regarding the time between upgrades: MS is so far behind what the market expects today. As a software exec that has seen many changes over the past decade, MS should be doing quarterly upgrades that are less of complete overhauls and more incremental which is what the rest of the market expects nowadays.

 

[Barry_Wainwright_[MVP]]

Regarding the time between upgrades: MS is so far behind what the
market expects today. As a software exec that has seen many changes
over the past decade, MS should be doing quarterly upgrades that are
less of complete overhauls and more incremental which is what the rest
of the market expects nowadays.

You are being a little unkind.

Major version updates happen roughly every 3 years, as Michel indicated.

In between Major Releases, there are significant updates (service
packs). SP1 (version 12.2.00 was released 2008-05-14. SP2 (12.2.0) was
released 2009-07-20.

And then, in between the SP releases there are any number of minor,
incremental updates. Since SP2 there have been 4 releases - the last
two being on 2009-11-10 (12.2.3) and 2010-03-09 (12.2.4).

In additon, a whole new version of Entourage was also released on
2010-03-09 (Web Services Ediution) that completely revolutionised the
way the Entourage talks with Exchange.

It is rare that a quarter goes by without at least an incremental
update. I think they are already doing what you are asking for!




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[Megabyte]

You are being a little unkind.

Major version updates happen roughly every 3 years, as Michel indicated.

In between Major Releases, there are significant updates (service
packs). SP1 (version 12.2.00 was released 2008-05-14. SP2 (12.2.0) was
released 2009-07-20.

And then, in between the SP releases there are any number of minor,
incremental updates. Since SP2 there have been 4 releases - the last
two being on 2009-11-10 (12.2.3) and 2010-03-09 (12.2.4).

In additon, a whole new version of Entourage was also released on
2010-03-09 (Web Services Ediution) that completely revolutionised the
way the Entourage talks with Exchange.

It is rare that a quarter goes by without at least an incremental
update. I think they are already doing what you are asking for!

I agree with you that the Office for Mac release cycle is realistic. Surely
we don't want to pay to upgrade our Office suite every 3 or 4 months for
incremental enhancements. Office 2011 for Mac is right in tune with Office
2010 for Windows with both scheduled to ship this year. I'm looking forward
to Outlook for Mac and to incorporation of the ribbon in the rest of the
suite. I believe the Mac BU of MS is doing a decent job and now all we need
is a MS iPad BU! ;-)