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MS Office 2004: Release Date Confusion
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I'm confused. 
Everyone's talking about how their copies of MS Office 2004 for Mac are shipping, giving their first impressions, yet there seem to be no published reviews, no official launch from Microsoft, and no announcement at Mactopia.
Can someone please tell us what's going on?
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Originally posted by selowitch:
Can someone please tell us what's going on?
Not sure why MacTopia hasn't updated; however, Microsoft did mention the release at some event this past week (very quietly), as well as, confirming the delay in Virtual PC 7...
All versions of Office:2004 are shipping; except, the "Professional Edition" suite (which includes VPC 7 and is delayed), but that is due I believe in late June/early July unless delayed again.
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The Apple store by me had it in stock and I bought it yesterday.
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Originally posted by PeterKG:
The Apple store by me had it in stock and I bought it yesterday.
Yeah, I know I can order it. I'm just puzzled by the sort of muted reaction to it.
Where are the reviews?
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Originally posted by selowitch:
Where are the reviews?
These very forums...
And oh yeah, "Google is your friendŽ"...
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Originally posted by gorickey:
These very forums...
Besides those.
And oh yeah, "Google is your friendŽ"...
Don't you think I would have tried that prior to kvetching here?
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Originally posted by selowitch:
Don't you think I would have tried that prior to kvetching here?
If you did and didn't find what you are looking for...you did something wrong...
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Originally posted by gorickey:
If you did and didn't find what you are looking for...you did something wrong...
Sheesh. OK, wise guy. How about some links?
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Originally posted by selowitch:
Sheesh. OK, wise guy. How about some links?
No problem, these are fitting:
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 How charming. Are you always so mature?
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Originally posted by selowitch:
How charming. Are you always so mature?
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"You rise," he said, "like Aurora." 
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Please get back on topic.
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{{{ mindwaves }}}
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Originally posted by selowitch:
I'm confused.
Everyone's talking about how their copies of MS Office 2004 for Mac are shipping, giving their first impressions, yet there seem to be no published reviews, no official launch from Microsoft, and no announcement at Mactopia.
Can someone please tell us what's going on?
The word from the MS support boards is that Office 2004 has not been "officially" released. Major publications are still under NDA. I do not know when the official release date is, but you can be certain that when it hits, you'll see lots of reviews.
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Did you actually follow any of those links? Not one of those is a review.. The first link is a preview from January that says "most of the new functionality is under wraps" the rest are just places you can buy it from. I checked all the links in the first two pages. Just because a random series of words returns hits in google doesn't mean that the results are going to be relevant, unfortunately.
I agree, it is odd the complete and utter lack of press about this release. Maybe they are keeping quiet until the Pro version comes out? That's a long time though.
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Originally posted by sinebubble:
The word from the MS support boards is that Office 2004 has not been "officially" released. Major publications are still under NDA. I do not know when the official release date is, but you can be certain that when it hits, you'll see lots of reviews.
Thanks for posting this, I have been looking for a forum where there is more discussion than here about the new Office and I completely forgot that Microsoft has newsgroups.
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Bought mine yesterday at local CompUsa...
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How frustrating. I can order the product virtually anywhere, but there are no reliable and complete reviews to help me decide whether to order it or not. Apparently this is all due (at least in part) to NDAs that have poorly timed expiration dates!
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I'd assume that since it's available to purchase, the office release has occurred. However, some magazines may wait to review the software until the Professional Edition is released with VPC7 including; which is available for preorder at many online retailers.
Here is a link to fellow MacNN users opinions on the software.
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Am I ready for the Mac? I want a 60G iPod!!!!!
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Originally posted by selowitch:
How frustrating. I can order the product virtually anywhere, but there are no reliable and complete reviews to help me decide whether to order it or not. Apparently this is all due (at least in part) to NDAs that have poorly timed expiration dates!
Dude, relax. I've been using it for a couple of days and I feel 2004 is a great upgrade. You can read more about it in the Microsoft Mac support forums here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...lic.mac.office
You can also download the test drive and use it for 30 days from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default...d=office2004td
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Am I ready for the Mac? I want a 60G iPod!!!!!
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Originally posted by itai195:
ZDNet has a review.
Do you have a link? I didn't see it there.
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Originally posted by selowitch:
Do you have a link? I didn't see it there.
Why coitanly!
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Originally posted by itai195:
Why coitanly!
Thanks, friend! :-)
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