Within the subsequent few weeks, it appears like plenty of long-awaited Microsoft items will lastly go live. Final week, it absolutely was IE 7. On October 24,
Office 2007 Serial, Microsoft released the XP version of Windows Defender,
Office 2010, its antispyware instrument. In addition,
Office 2007 Serial, it rolled out the ultimate edition of Windows Desktop Search yesterday, too. On October thirty, Microsoft is expected to go gold with Windows Media Player (WMP) 11 for Windows Xp. (It sounds like the original scheduled release-to-manufacturing date for WMP eleven was supposed to be October 24, but Microsoft pushed it back for some unexplained cause.) Microsoft also is expected to release the last edition of Workplace Live, the small-business-focused providers which are an adjunct to Microsoft Workplace, on or around October 31. Workplace Reside will be integrated with a variety of Microsoft's growing family of Reside properties. The LiveSiders cite as an example the inclusion of an adManager instrument for purchasing and managing Windows Live Lookup keywords. And the biggest kahunas of the "when will they ship" gang — Windows Vista and Workplace 2007 – are both weeks, if not days,
Office 2007 Professional, away from their respective RTM dates, according to Microsoft watchers within and outside the company.