Tag: Office

  • Microsoft Office 2007 Falls Behind Schedule

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Office 2007 is running late. Microsoft officials acknowledged on June 29 that the company will not meet the October 2006 business-availability target to which it committed in March of this year. At that time, Microsoft officials said to expect retail availability of Office 2007 to be some time in January 2007, so as to coincide… Read more

  • An Ecosystem with a Purpose

    Pedro Pereira

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    One of the most popular buzzwords in the channel these days is “ecosystem.” Vendors such as IBM and Symantec like to use the term to convey the relationship between themselves, their channel partners and their partners’ partners. The idea is that the vendor works with the partners, and partners with each other, to achieve the… Read more

  • Lenovo Aims to Be a Best Buy for SMBs

    Lenovo Aims to Be a Best Buy for SMBs

    John G. Spooner

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    Lenovo is setting up shop with Best Buy. The PC maker has struck a deal to allow Best Buy For Business, which are business-oriented annexes inside 135 Best Buy stores, to offer customers the ability to order from its entire Lenovo U.S. PC product line. Lenovo is aiming to continue expanding its scope with small… Read more

  • Office Delayed: Can Microsoft Make the Trains Run on Time?

    Office Delayed: Can Microsoft Make the Trains Run on Time?

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Windows hasn’t cornered the market on Microsoft date slips. While the Windows Vista launch delay made big headlines this week, the Office 2007 one did not. On March 23—in the midst of the hubbub over Microsoft’s reorganization of its Platforms & Systems division—Microsoft officials acknowledged that Office 2007 is now going to launch in 2007,… Read more

  • How Disruptive Will Office 2007 Adoption Be?

    How Disruptive Will Office 2007 Adoption Be?

    Peter Galli

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    While Microsoft faces a host of challenges in maintaining its market share numbers and persuading customers to upgrade to its 2007 Office System suite of products when released in the second half of this year, its competitors face an equally daunting task of winning users away from Office 2007 and growing their numbers. Heading the… Read more

  • Microsoft to Unleash Host of Office 2007 Suites

    Microsoft to Unleash Host of Office 2007 Suites

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft on Feb. 16 is set to announce 34 Office suites, programs, servers, services and tools—13 of which are new—that form part of its 2007 Microsoft Office family of products, previously knows as Office 12. Retail pricing for the comparable versions of the product has not been increased, remaining unchanged from the retail prices for… Read more