Monday, July 03, 2006

Office upgrade hard to justify to board, warns analyst / ZDNet UK, 22 June 2006

http://digbig.com/4krqq
Andrew Donoghue
"Office 2007 will be the biggest release of Microsoft's productivity suite in ten years, but users should consider carefully whether they actually need it. Companies should look to quantify carefully what benefits moving to the next version of Office will have for their users as — unlike the move to Windows Vista which the analyst claims can be staggered – supporting two or more versions of Office is prohibitively costly. "We believe that many companies will have to do a forklift migration with Office 2007 as supporting two versions of Office is very complex and will be too complicated for most," said Jump."