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Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes Launch Office 2003

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 In New York City

Once again I had the opportunity sit in the first row of this exciting launch.

Work Faster, collaborate better, and gain hours of improved productivity is the communiqué Bill Gates delivered at the Launch of Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft created the basic operating system of the personal computer that for the past 20 years has revolutionized the way we create and communicate. Let's face it. The PC and the software that run it are the greatest inventions of this century. Without companies like Microsoft, Bell Labs (Lucent), Intel and IBM, the technology industry would never have advanced as far as it has.

Today, Microsoft products offer a comprehensive and integrated system of desktop programs, servers, and solutions. Having a suite of tools designed to work together is certainly better than trying to duplicate using random open source code.

Microsoft's new product, Office 2003, is a bit belated, since 2004 is just around the corner. But it is a refreshing win-win proposition for businesses and consumers. Since this is Microsoft's second most important bread-and-butter product, it hopes to generate revenues in the billions of dollars and stimulate the next round of growth in the technology sector.

Competition certainly stimulates growth in the marketplace. leading to today's advancements. However, Microsoft's third-party solution partners work together as a team to benefit everyone. Amazon.com, Dell, EMC, Intel, Siemens, and Xerox are just a few of the many companies working with Microsoft.

Microsoft Office Professional Includes

Microsoft Office word 2003

Microsoft Office Excel 2003

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with business contact manager

Microsoft Office Access 2003

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

So What’s New ?

Some new products and features in Office 2003.

Microsoft Office Info Path 20003: (available on enterprise volume licensing edition)

Streamlines the Process of Gathering information by enabling teams and organizations to easily create and work with content rich, dynamic forms with XML.

Microsoft office One Note 2003:

Enhances user productivity and reduces the time spent locating information by combining the freedom and flexibility of paper notes with the efficiency and power of digital organizational tools by using a familiar paper-based notebook metaphor.

Microsoft Office live meeting:

A hosted Web Conferencing service called PlaceWare Conference center that allows business to conduct live meetings over the internet.

Microsoft Office Online:

First line of support for users of Office. Provided your system is online, it will provide a range of useful information.

Solution Accelerators: An integrated set of components, templates, and Microsoft- authored guidance designed to solve a specific customer business problems across common line of business areas such as finance, operations, sales and human resources.

NEW and Improved

ü The Reading Pane Work together to give customers a more comprehensive view of their inboxes

ü Improved Enhanced Rules and Desktop alerts allows for unobtrusive E-mail alerts

ü New outlook Search Folders A way of keeping messages together without moving them.

ü New Outlook Quick Flags one click notification marking

ü Improves Junk E-Mail filtering technology that identifies unsolicited e-mails.

ü New Block External HTML Content another way of controlling e-mail

ü New Cached Exchange Mode

ü New Microsoft Outlook with business contact manager A better way of organizing contacts

ü New Research Pane A way to call up information needed at that moment through web services framework

ü Improved Enhanced INK support for tablet

ü New XML support means can access information from across disparate systems

ü Programmable Task Panes

ü Smart Documents based on rich XML

ü Improved Smart tags

ü New Very High Macro Setting that allows users to turn off macros completely

ü Improved Object model allowing more control over scripts etc..

ü File blocking in outlook prevents automatically opening 38 file types of potential viruses

ü Improved Integrated Anti-Virus Application programming interface allowing 3^rd party vendors to write better virus scanners

System Requirements:

ü Intel Pentium 233 MHZ or Higher Processor

ü Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service pac3 or windows XP or Later Operating System

ü 128 MB RAM or better

Hard Disk Space:

ü 260 MB for Standard Edition

ü 400 MB for Professional Edition

ü 190 MB for Outlook with Contact manager

Other:

ü CD-ROM

ü Super VGA 800x600 with 256 color or better

ü Mouse

Retail Pricing is largely unchanged from the Office XP Prices!

Pricing Editions Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition 2003 Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition 2003 Microsoft Office Small Business 2003 Microsoft Office student and teacher 2003 Microsoft Office Standard 2003 Microsoft Office Basic 2003 Core Applications Microsoft Office Word 2003 Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Microsoft Office Access 2003 Category Applications Microsoft Office Frontpage 2003 Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 Microsoft Office Publisher with Digital Image Pro 2003 Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003 Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 Servers Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Retail Price / Upgrade price Editions Volume Licensing Price not quoted $499.00 / $329.00 $449.00 / $279.00 $149.00 / NA $399.00 / $239.00 Price not quoted Core Applications $229.00 / $109.00 $229.00 / $109.00 $109.00 / NA $229.00 / $109.00 $229.00 / $109.00 Category Applications $199.00 / $109.00 $199.00 / NA $199.00 / NA $100.00 (U.S.) Mail in rebate Academic $49.00 upgrade $169.00 / $99.00 after $70. in box Mail in Rebate $209.00 / $139.00 after $70. in box Mail in Rebate $199.00 / $99.00 $499.00 / $249.00 $599.00 / $349.00 $999.00 / $599.00 Servers $3,999 per server

More Information can Be found at Microsoft.com/office

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