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[porkchopexpress]

Not including things that require Sharepoint and so on what are the basic features that would make 2010 worth waiting for over Office 2007 SP2 for your average Office user? We need to update from 2003 and are wondering if we should wait. I remenber someone talking about web features but will they all require Sharepoint and so on?

Thanks.

 

[kjv1611]

If you're talking about users in a coporation, there may be other reasons to go with 2007 before 2010, I would think. There could be fixes that have already been handed down for 2007, while 2010 will be brand new, and therefore, more bug-prone. So, even if 2010 has more features, the additional head-aches may not be worth it, for at least a year after it's developed... if you're talking about a large corporation especially.

Another thing you have to look into is compatibility. If there are any custom applications based on MS Office products prior to 2007, you already have quite some differences to 2007. If you go to 2010, I'd imagine the differences could be far greater.

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[fumei]

We need to update from 2003 "

My bolding.

And.....why exactly?

Gerry

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Most large companies don't adopt a version of office until it's been out for a few years for the reasons KJV listed.

We're still in the process of switching to 2007. It took me a couple of weeks of grumbling to get used to the interface, and a few additional weeks of cursing while rewriting several macros that made use of application.filesearch, which is no longer supported as of Office 2007.

But here I sit about 4 months after first interacting with Office 2007 and I'm pretty much used to it. (In fact, I kind of like it. Shhh! Don't tell anyone!)

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[TonyJollans]

Features of Office 2010 have not been announced yet, although some predictable things may have leaked out.

I will second Gerry's question: why do you need to update? What is your current requirement that is not met by 2003?

Enjoy,
Tony

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[porkchopexpress]

We need to update from 2003 "My bolding.And.....why exactly?

We need to start delivering training on Office 2007 to start both for our users and for evening class users.

 

[TonyJollans]

It's not for me to tell you how to run your business, but, in order to deliver training, you have to get up to speed yourself. If you wait for Office 2010, are you going to be ready before 2011? Can you wait that long to start your courses?

Enjoy,
Tony

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[strongm]

>application.filesearch

And toolbars ...

 

[porkchopexpress]

I don't deliver the training, i've just been asked to look into options.

 

[TonyJollans]

strongm,

Questions? Wishful thinking? Cloud Cuckoo Land?

porkchopexpress,

My personal opinion would be that, as a provider of training, you (your bosses) have an absolute requirement to be familiar with, and have available, all the versions your customers use. That must surely include Office 2007 (now 2.5 years old) and Office 2010 whenever it is released (after which it will, presumably, be shipped with new PCs in some form).

There is really nothing I can add to what I've already said about 2010 except that we are all eagerly awaiting the 'technical preview' later this month, at which point we will all know more. There is a web page to register interest, [link

http://www.office2010themovie.com/

]here[/url]; I really have no comment to make on this and have no idea who it is aimed at.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[porkchopexpress]

Ok thanks.

 

[GSCaupling]

...except that we are all eagerly awaiting the 'technical preview' later this month...

Who is the "we" you reference? Just MVP's, or will the general public get a preview? I'm not sure how these things work.

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[wpgwiggum]

Would the issue of support be a factor in waiting? What I mean is 5-7 years from now if the comany hasn't yet upgraded office to Office 2015 or something like that.

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[TonyJollans]

Who is the "we" you reference?

Many MVPs, certainly, no doubt others as well, although I'm also sure many people are bored rigid by the whole thing.

As an MVP my interest is automatically registered but, AFAIK, anybody can register an interest via the Office 2010 site. Registering an interest, however, does not guarantee being accepted onto the technical preview, they say. I think they got burned by the size of the take up of the 2007 beta and want to avoid the same situation this time.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[lionelhill]

... ah, so let's get this straight:

Someone, somewhere, buys Office2015, and starts sending out files with .doc2015 extensions. Therefore the rest of us have to buy Office2015 in order to read them. Now we don't know how it works, so we have to pay someone to train us. So the training company have to buy Office2015. Now none of us can do anything because Office2015 needs a Pentium Quantum 24-core 15GHz processor and at least 512Tbytes of memory (recommended 1024) to run. So we all have to throw away all our hardware and buy new PCs.

But at least when we've done all that we'll still be able to type a letter. If we're lucky, the printer might not jam.

 

[kjv1611]

Wow! What insight!
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