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Apple Gets It’s Office 2007 Groove On

by Jason on September 22nd, 2006

Part of me feels like I should apologize for not offering more involvement to the Apple community in relation to the next Office suite from Microsoft. It’s not much that I’ve done to help, but Microsoft will be releasing an updated version of Office 2007 for the Mac platform in 2007 as well.

Both the Windows and the Apple version will use the XML file format, which should assist tremendously with sharing files between platforms.

Oddly though, what suprises me the most is that the fresh-in-the-spotlight “ribbon” interface will be glaringly missing from the Mac version. There’s been alot of discussion about whether or not an upgrade to 2007 is really worth doing on the Windows platform if the only new thing is the “ribbon”. Although, I don’t think saying the ribbon being the “only new thing” to be a slight improvement.

“We will be doing a user interface refresh, but it will not be exactly like you see in Office 2007,” said Starman. “It just would not make sense.”

There you have it, Office 2007 will be released on the Mac around late summer or early fall of 2007.

I wonder if the Mac version will have the ability to save PDF standard since Adobe chooses to share with Apple and not Microsoft.

Source: Microsoft lifts lid on Office 2007 for Macs

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