Office 2007: 70 million not served
section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 19.9.2007
It sounded too good to be true. And it turns out it was. A report last week that Microsoft had sold 70 million copies of Office 2007 since the product was released to manufacturing turned out to be wrong.
Officials with Microsoft France allegedly told press last week that Microsoft had sold 70 million copies of Office 2007 since Microsoft made the product available at the end of 2006.
I asked Microsoft whether that number — which seemed awfully high, given that Windows Vista just hit the 60-million-copies-sold mark in July — was accurate. Last week, officials declined to comment on Office 2007 sales. But in responding to IBM’s unveiling of a new Microsoft Office competitor known as IBM Lotus Symphony, Microsoft shed more light on that 70 million figure.
In response to IBM’s September 18 announcement, Microsoft released the following comment from Jacob Jaffe, Director of Microsoft Office.
“Customers continue to tell us that our solutions deliver the ease of use, reliability and security that they need. This is validated by the strong adoption and usage seen by Microsoft Office having sold more than 71 million licenses in just the last Microsoft fiscal year. Our long history in meeting the complex needs of enterprise customers, a partner ecosystem that has grown 43% on the Office platform since last year and our current and future investments in the software + services arena will deliver even more flexibility to customers.”
At the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting at the end of July, Microsoft Business President Jeff Raikes told attendees that Microsoft had sold 70 million licenses of all versions of Office during fiscal 2007, the Microsoft spokesperson further elaborated this week.
What percentage of the 70 million copies sold between July 1, 2006, and June 30, 2007, were Office 2007? I’d be a good percent of them were, but Microsoft won’t comment….
Speaking of Office, Microsoft has shipped Service Pack (SP) 3 for Office 2003. The latest SP disables “Fast Save” for security reasons, according to Microsoft.
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Comments(7)
microsoft can say anything, when it says 70 million sold, as we all know that isn't
true, because the fact remains, sold doesn't equal customer paid and bought. what it
really means is another fud method, which is nothing more than saying 70 million so called
licenses, which are not actually paid for, or bought, as until the customer buys it for
real, it's just virtual money.
the truth is in that this virtual 70 million
is just hype, just potential but remember it's not realized.
so why even
bother to advertise 70 million when in truth it's nothing more than propaganda used to
influence us into thinking everyone else is buying.
are we nothing more than
fish swimming in a school?
give me a break, if microsoft really sold 70
million how about paying irs your 70 million income taxes?
let's see those
records!
what no proof? no irs records to back up?
just the same with there 60 millioms.
a lot of companies still use office 2000
they should be making a lot of money out of their office suit. uncle sam should be really
happy about that microsoft... lol... that's nothing else but pure propaganda. just for
the records: no matter what i do in my customers' pcs they just don't want the damn
windblows viscrap installed in it! so those millions are only virtually possible for
redmond... not your fault, that's microsoft.
after sun and google moves with their offices, i beleive that microsoft will built into
windows the office. maybe then they will have that number of selling )))))
i would tend to believe the split worked something like this:
70 million=
20 million of office 2007
49 million of office 2003
1 million on support
versions older than office 2003
the reason i have the office 2007 number so low
is because:
1. i feel some of vista's issues have made adoption of office 2007 slow
due to trusting that it will work.
2. word 2007's ribbon - nice feature, however
corporate users will need to retrain costing time, additional education money.
3.
office 2003 good enough for now - office 2003 is sufficient for most users.
4. the
features added with 2007 are not enough to warrent an upgrade for most users.
5.
office is probably one of the most expensive packages out there. upgrading could be a
fortune for some companies.
microsoft is on the right track with office 2007,
though they shouldn't expect overnight adoption....
licenses sold may be the estimated 70 million; however,this does not translate to actual
copies in use; which is significantly less. largly in part, companies are locked into the
software support schedule, "software assurance" and software refreshes.
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By Bill on 20.09.2007 - 05:09