I last wrote about my experience of the public beta of Office 2007 here. According to PC World Microsoft Office 2007 will be available to enterprise customers (volume licensing) by 30th November. Starting from 1 December you could download a 60-day trials.
I may try that again to see if the final version will work with older version of exchange server at work otherwise that’ll be no good to me as I have no control as to when our exchange server will be upgraded.
I said Microsoft is turning its head here. Today if you type in “Microsoft, Novell, Agreement” in Google you’ll get few million results. Perhaps this is the hottest topic in the IT World.
Reaction from the stock market is mixed about Novell’s move. Checking out NOVL‘s market capitaliztion you’ll see they are only 2.25b compare to MSFT‘s 282.43b. If MSFT is so positive about the marriage why don’t they simply buy NOVL over? My naive insight is that this is not the right time to buy with NOVL’s P/E at 332 times.
I think MSFT is taking a wait and see attitude as the pack is said to be valid until 2012. Intelligence of the crowd will determine MSFT’s next move. If it works out and the customers like it and IT community approves it the cash rich MSFT can make this turn permanent easily.
Google’s Eric Schmidt comes from Novell I wonder what is in his mind right now?
Zune is coming out in less than 2 weeks. Their website is here, how do you like their look?
I think data, not cash, is king in 21st century. I have so much songs (10G) in iTune library and my iPod unless there is a simple and quick way of migrating I really don’t want the trouble even if I’m given a free Zune.
Hey Bill give me 3 compelling reasons why I should switch!
