The company announced at Macworld Expo last January that it planned on releasing Microsoft Office 2004 Standard Edition, Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition, Virtual PC 7.0 and its associated Office 2004 Professional Edition in the first half of 2004, targeting the month of May. "There are 165 people in the Mac BU some are focused on Office, some on VPC, some on MSN Messenger," Sommer said. Sommer would not confirm the amount of manpower that is working on completing Virtual PC 7.0 for release.
Windows XP SP2 release has moved to the end of July which has impacted our schedule as well." "We are waiting for the release of Windows XP SP2 in order to offer the most recent, most secure version of Windows XP to our Virtual PC for Mac customers. In addition, there is an edition of Virtual PC 7 that ships with Windows XP in a box by itself, as well as Windows XP being included in the Office 2004 Professional Edition," she commented. Because of this, we have adjusted our release timing to match a more realistic schedule." The developing, testing, and bug fix cycle with Virtual PC is longer than that of Office and the testing more vigorous than previous versions of Virtual PC. Initially, our development and testing timeline was estimated based on our experience with development of Office. In explaining the delay, Sommer said, "This is the first version of Virtual PC for Mac developed by Microsoft. Sommer would not be more specific on a time frame or month. "Virtual PC for Mac Version 7 will be available in the second half of 2004," Jessica Sommer, Product Manager for the Mac BU, told The Mac Observer, Tuesday. has confirmed the release of Virtual PC 7.0, Microsoftis PC emulation software, has been delayed from the first half of this year until the second half of 2004 due to longer-than-expected development and testing, a company spokeswoman said. He Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) of Microsoft Corp.
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