OFFICE 2008

[tom4rd]

MS has been very quiet about OFFFICE 2008. Did I miss something, or
was the last press release in JAN?

My company puts a lot of documents on GROOVE. Will OFFICE 2008 be
compatible?

Does MS have a site to provide requests/recommendation/feedback about
OFFICE?

Thank,
Tom

 

[JE McGimpsey]

MS has been very quiet about OFFFICE 2008. Did I miss something, or
was the last press release in JAN?

See the MacBU's Office team blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2007/08/02/office-2008-coming-janua
ry-2008.aspx

My company puts a lot of documents on GROOVE. Will OFFICE 2008 be
compatible?

I've seen no announcements one way or the other.

Does MS have a site to provide requests/recommendation/feedback about
OFFICE?

Yes. From any Office appliation, choose Help/Send Feedback...

 

[William Smith]

MS has been very quiet about OFFFICE 2008. Did I miss something, or
was the last press release in JAN?

My company puts a lot of documents on GROOVE. Will OFFICE 2008 be
compatible?

Does MS have a site to provide requests/recommendation/feedback about
OFFICE?

Hi Tom!

Microsoft has been quiet because they are still working on it.

The initial announcement made in January was that they plan to release
Office 2008 in the second half of 2007. However, those plans have
changed. See this post on the Mac Mojo blog for details
<http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2007/08/02/office-2008-coming-january-2008.aspx>.

As for sending feedback to Microsoft, they definitely still have a
feedback page. You can access it any time by selecting Send Feedback
from the Help menu of any Office:mac application or you can go directly
to it here <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=feedback>.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[tom4rd]

JE & Bill,
Thanks for you quick answers, not that I like having to wait another 6
months for OFFICE 2008.
Tom

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Tom,

For anyone curious about Microsoft Groove for Windows, it is analogous to
Microsoft Office Project Gallery (included as part of Microsoft Office) on
the Mac.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/FX100487641033.aspx

Office 2004 has vba. Office 2008 does not. The moment VBA appears in a 2008
document then compatibility is broken.

On the other hand, some of the screwy "new" things introduced recently into
Windows office, such as incompatible comment boxes and org charts, will be
updated on the Mac side so that Office 2008 will share the same new,
perplexing incompatibilities with older versions of office. So in that
sense, because Office 2008 will also be incompatible with older versions of
office but will be compatible with newer windows versions, then
compatibility overall is improved.

You do understand the logic here, of course. Right?

-Jim

MS has been very quiet about OFFFICE 2008. Did I miss something, or
was the last press release in JAN?

My company puts a lot of documents on GROOVE. Will OFFICE 2008 be
compatible?

Does MS have a site to provide requests/recommendation/feedback about
OFFICE?

Thank,
Tom

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[jim.golden]

Jim
Thanks for the info on Groove and Office 2008
Will Office 2008 support Sharepoint?

Thanks