A second beta version of the application suite, formerly known as Office 11, is being made available by Microsoft to Irish testers within the next few days, according to a Microsoft source. It is likely that the final version, due for release mid-2003, states Microsoft, will also be called Office 2003 according to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans. Such a name for this productivity application suite would be in line with the nomenclature for other new Microsoft products. For example, Microsoft in early 2003 changed the Windows .Net Server product name to Windows Server 2003, with launch of the server platform scheduled for April 24th 2003.
Microsoft released the first beta version of Office 11 in October 2002. This second beta version has already been released to US testers on March 6th 2003.
A Microsoft spokesperson in the UK declined to confirm the name change.
Irwin Hunter, product manager for Office at Microsoft in the Netherlands, said the ‘Office 2003 name is on the table’ but has not been finalised.
Though the Office 2003 name has already been given to the second beta version, the company could still decide to change it, though this seems unlikely.
Most of the applications in the new version of Office, the successor to Office XP, will look and act much as they currently do. Under the hood, however, there are some big changes — in particular, enhanced collaborative tools and support for XML.
18/03/2003
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