Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System

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re: Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Michael Ryan — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:39:08 GMT

I believe it is crazy to release the Home and Student edition without Outlook. Outlook Express is a joke, and I don't like webmail.

The Home and Student edition is the only one *without* Outlook. What the hell were they thinking?

Now they are expecting a Home/Student use to spend over $480 to install the latest version of Office and Outlook on 3 systems? That just plain sucks, especially when you can get the Office 2003 Student/Teacher for $150.

I suppose I'll just upgrade to the 2003 Student/Teacher edition, and wait until the next Office release. Of perhaps I'll just stick with Thunderbird.

re: Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Mark Freedman — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:58:35 GMT

No Outlook in the home edition??? That is ridiculous, IMO, especially at that price. I feel strongly that any software targeting students and home users over $100 is a huge mistake.

Great blog, fascinating reading, and exciting possibilities for Office. I'm sure you guys realize how much of an impact you have over the direction of UI design throughout the industry, so it makes sense how much thought you put into the new UI.

But I wish the marketing team was as progressive as the development team.

re: Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System

jensenh — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:19:50 GMT

Also, John, I read that same article and I think when they say:

"it cannot be upgraded to a future version of Office"

what they really mean is:

"it is not eligible for upgrade pricing to a future version of Office"

Not that there will be a technical limitation.

re: Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System

John Waller — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:28:59 GMT

>>1) I think Home & Student still has a 3 PC license.

Seems right.

Although according to News.com

"the home version of Office can be used on up to three PCs in a home, but cannot be upgraded to a future version of Office. "

http://tinyurl.com/b54xb

Is that the case?

re: Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System

jensenh — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:21:51 GMT

pli:

1) I think Home & Student still has a 3 PC license.

2) I'd like to read that too!

re: Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System

pli — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:22:48 GMT

1. It looks like the new Home/Student version will only be installable on 1 PC. The current Student & Teacher edition allows 3 installs. What a great way to jack up the price.

2. I wish someone in Microsoft's Marketing dept would publish a blog like Jensen does to give us a view as to why their product names have to be changing constantly and there seems to be absolutely no consistency from one version to the next.

re: Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Chris C. — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:14:18 GMT

Derek (et. al.)
> a great product, but a lousy name. "Microsoft Office 2007" would have been better, if boring. But "2007 Microsoft Office"?? It just doesn't sound right.

I agree, it doesn't sound right.
However, "2007 Microsoft Office" will appear at the TOP of most sorted lists (because numbers sort before letters). I expect some 'marketing weasel' within MSFT got a promotion for coming up with that fact.

(A side effect is that ALL OF THE NEW VERSIONs will be in one convenient place next to each other in the list)

But I expect most retailers who don't stock it will go to the "Microsoft..." part of the list without noticing this fact and won't be able to find it. :-)

Just my $0.02,
-Chris C.

re: Introducing the 2007 Microsoft Office System

MH — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:05:46 GMT

Paul: My guess is Ray Ozzie. It's a company Microsoft acquired.