The next version of Microsoft Office, now known as Office 11, will likely be called Office 2003 from the release of the second beta version early next month, according to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans.
The naming of the productivity application suite would be in line with other Microsoft products. For example, Microsoft earlier this year changed the Windows .Net Server product name to Windows Server 2003, with launch of the server platform scheduled for April 24.
Microsoft released the first beta version of Office 11 in October last year. A second beta version will be made available internally at Microsoft next week, followed by release to testers on March 6, the sources said. The final product should be out midyear, Microsoft has said.
A Microsoft spokeswoman in the
"The Microsoft beta 2 announcement for Office 11 is expected very shortly. At this time we have not made any announcements on the naming conventions we will apply to this release of Office," the spokeswoman said.
Irwin Hunter, product manager for Office at Microsoft in the
Microsoft marketing staff from around the world will meet at Microsoft's
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, with enhanced collaborative tools and support for XML being the most important ones.
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