Comments on: Office 2007 sales

By: Adam Vero

Adam Vero — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:32:00 +0000

They’re talking about 90% by summer 2009 – so this is only a projection, forecast, guess of what might happen in the next year.
Howver, the ‘largest customers’ are typically the ones who might be installing Office 2007 to get better integration with other enterprise applications such as Exchange 2007, or CRM 4.0, MOSS 2007. The back-end will often steer the front-end in these cases, where the desktop applications are only seen as a portal into data held in more complex systems. Smaller businesses will typically get more value out of the features of the desktop application in its own right, and have to prove a return for upgrading which many will feel is simply not there.

As for 60M licences sold, even those will have downgrade rights if they are open / select, so buyers will buy Office 2007 now even if they have no intention to deploy it for some time to come.

By: Stephane Rodriguez

Stephane Rodriguez — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:10:32 +0000

A good figure to get : how many Office 2007 licensees save in old formats only to ensure they can work with others ?

Some have tried to look up Google with “filetype:”, but I don’t find this relevant at all.

By: Mike Staunton

Mike Staunton — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:04:32 +0000

So let’s say 90 out of the 100 largest customers have deployed Office 2007 (90% by number of businesses) but the largest 10 haven’t and they account for 50% of sales – so the 90% figure is meaningless (and obviously picked to give the best light on the position) unless they give the percentage volume of those customers that have adopted

By: Harlan Grove

Harlan Grove — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:13:49 +0000

Office stands for a familiar experience to our visually challenged users. Everyone else can kiss our [too garled].

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:03:36 +0000

nice
I was thinking: Open [missed in transcript] Office stands for a familiar experience, we’re all about new and gaudy [missed]

I also think there is another F word that is more accurate than ‘familiar’ when describing the Excel 2007 UI.

By: dougaj4

dougaj4 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:41:14 +0000

Office stamps out a familiar experience.

or maybe

Ofice stands. For a familiar experience … try open office (barely audible)