{"id":44,"date":"2006-06-02T22:26:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T05:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/archives\/7"},"modified":"2006-06-02T22:26:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T05:26:40","slug":"predicting-the-future-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/predicting-the-future-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting the future.  Or not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MacPredict caught my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/archives\/5\">post<\/a> on our Xcode status, and is asking people to <a href=\"http:\/\/macpredict.com\/event.php?e=85&#038;t=Office%20Universal%20Binary\">predict<\/a> when Microsoft will ship a Universal Binary of Mac Office.  So far, I see that the &#8216;consensus&#8217; is January of 2007.  Heh.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not going to drop any hints about when we&#8217;ll ship, but I do want to point out two things.<br \/>\n1) MacPredict says &#8220;it sounds like they haven&#8217;t even got it compiling in xCode yet.&#8221;  That&#8217;s not really true.  We <strong>do<\/strong> have Office building in Xcode; we&#8217;re just not 100% done.  The vast majority of MacBU devs are using Xcode on a daily basis for the vast majority of their work.  We just have a few tricky issues left to work out around a number of core bits of code.<br \/>\n2) The fact that Office builds under Xcode not a very good predictor of when we&#8217;ll ship.  We&#8217;re doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/rick_schaut\/archive\/2005\/06\/01\/424086.aspx\">heck of a lot more<\/a> in this release than just &#8216;making it Universal.&#8217;  Remember, we were already more than a year into the product development cycle when Steve &#038; Co. announced the Intel switch, with lots of planning done well before Office 2004 shipped.<br \/>\nHowever, the world just wouldn&#8217;t be right without rampant speculation and rumors, so please, go ahead and give it your best guess.  Predict away, and we&#8217;ll see where we end up.<br \/>\n<small>Full disclosure:  I &#8216;predicted&#8217; June 30, 2006.  It&#8217;d be nice if we hit this internally&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacPredict caught my post on our Xcode status, and is asking people to predict when Microsoft will ship a Universal Binary of Mac Office. So far, I see that the &#8216;consensus&#8217; is January of 2007. Heh. I&#8217;m not going to drop any hints about when we&#8217;ll ship, but I do want to point out two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-macbu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwieb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}