Vista and Office 2007 Will Launch Together in January

posted by  tom (176)  28 months ago (www.eweek.com)

Speaking of Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft told partners at its annual partner conference last week that it will still be launching the products in tandem in January 2007, contrary to rumors that either product could be delayed further into 2007. Microsoft will back the two products with $900 million worth of marketing in the company's current fiscal year, half of which it will spend on the product launches. I'm curious to see how tandem launch plays out. Vista is notoriously late, so one could logically wonder why anyone could get excited about it. But it has been five years since the last revolutionary Windows upgrade, so you never know. The Office launch is a bit more positive: Office 2007 is a huge upgrade, and people are actually excited about it, which might be a first for Microsoft's workhorse productivity suite.