It sounded as well fantastic to get true. And it turns out it had been.A report final week that Microsoft had sold 70 million copies of Workplace 2007 since the product was released to manufacturing turned out to be wrong. Officials with Microsoft France allegedly informed press last week that Microsoft had sold 70 million copies of Workplace 2007 considering that Microsoft created the product obtainable at the end of 2006.I asked Microsoft regardless of whether that quantity — which seemed awfully high,
Windows 7, provided that Windows Vista just hit the 60-million-copies-sold mark in July — was accurate. Final 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 launched the following comment from Jacob Jaffe, Director of Microsoft Workplace.“Customers continue to tell us that our solutions deliver the ease of use,
Microsoft Office 2007 Pro Plus, reliability and security that they need. This is validated by the strong adoption and usage seen by Microsoft Office having marketed more than 71 million licenses in just the final Microsoft fiscal year. Our long history in meeting the complex needs of enterprise customers, a partner ecosystem that has grown 43% around the Office platform considering that last year and our current and future investments inside software + services arena will deliver even more flexibility to customers.”In the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting in the finish of July,
Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key, Microsoft Business President Jeff Raikes advised 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 marketed between July 1,
Windows 7 X64, 2006, and June 30, 2007, were Office 2007? I;d be a fantastic percent of them were,
Office 2010 Professional, 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.