[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference noted::windows95

Title:Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago")
Notice:Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything
Moderator:EEMELI::BACKSTROM
Created:Mon Nov 14 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2958
Total number of notes:19968

2871.0. "Office '97 on Alpha?" by DECIDE::LANGFELDT () Fri Mar 21 1997 18:06

    
    Has anyone heard anything official about when Office '97
    will be available *native* on Alpha?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Sharon
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name
DateLines
2871.1skylab.zko.dec.com::FISHERGravity: Not just a good idea. It's the law!Fri Mar 21 1997 19:417
There are other conferences talking about this (probably the NT conference is
your best bet).  The summary as I understand it is that FX!32 is working to
support in in their next release (non-native, obviously) and that only a
couple of the applications on it are likely to be native (like Word and Excel,
maybe).  No dates for the Word/Excel Alpha native that I have seen.

Burns
2871.2I've heard MayPTOVAX::PEARLMANSun Mar 23 1997 23:063
    from some recent training where a person from Microsoft presented...
    He said he believed Word and Excel native on Alpha around end of April
    or sometime in May.
2871.3TALLIS::wlfgng.amt.tay1.dec.com::nelsonIt's not the years it's the mileage!Mon Mar 24 1997 13:2810
FX!32, version 1.2, has as its overriding goal support for Office97.  We wanted to
get it into 1.1, but the changes from Office95 to Office97 were way too vast.

Look for this release somewhere around the middle part of the year (June).


Brian


2871.4PCBUOA::KRATZMon Mar 24 1997 18:203
    The holdup might be for PowerPoint debugging, which was supposedly
    rewritten and included in with native Excel and Word for Alpha's
    Office97.  K