The release of office 14 now delayed until 2010

As you could probably guess from the title, Office 14, whose release date was hinted a while back to be sometime near the end of 2009 when Windows 7 is expected to be released, has now been delayed further to 2010. After an interview with a couple of Wall Street analysts, Steven Ballmer bluntly told them that “Office 14 will not be this year”. His quote coupled with the rumors that a Release Candidate version of the new Office is not planned to hit the web before this summer, all hopes of having a final version of the suite have been shut down. This might not seem as much of a problem since at the moment we have Office 12 otherwise known as Office 2007 that we can rely on. However, if we take into consideration the fact that in the past Microsoft has released most of its Office suites either at the same time they released a new OS or within a week or two of that particular OS's release, it is probable that Windows 7's date will also be pushed back in order to be put out on the market simultaneously with Office. Lets hope that this time Microsoft will act out differently and will release the new Windows before the end of the year as promised.