- #MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 PROFESSIONAL EDITION ALL IN ONE PLUS#
- #MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 PROFESSIONAL EDITION ALL IN ONE PROFESSIONAL#
#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 PROFESSIONAL EDITION ALL IN ONE PROFESSIONAL#
Microsoft also plans to sell standalone copies of the Professional versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access through a number of channels, including retailers. The aim is to offer corporate users additional management options while still maintaining complete compatibility between the Standard and Professional versions of Office 2003 applications, he said. Previously code-named "XDocs," InfoPath is a collaborative information gathering and management application.īoth Professional suites will include slightly different versions of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint than will the Standard and Small Business Editions: The new, Professional versions of those applications will feature added functionality including rights-management controls and custom-definable XML (Extensible Markup Language) schema.ĭocuments that take advantage of those Professional features will be viewable using any version of Office 2003 applications, Marks said. The Professional Enterprise Edition will add to the mix Microsoft's forthcoming InfoPath 2003 software. Microsoft is planning two Professional versions of Office 2003: a widely available one including 2003 versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and Business Contact Manager and a high-end offering, Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Enterprise Edition, available only through volume licensing.
#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 PROFESSIONAL EDITION ALL IN ONE PLUS#
The Small Business Edition will include all those applications plus Publisher 2003 and a new product, Microsoft's Business Contact Manager 2003. Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition will include Word 2003, Excel 2003, PowerPoint 2003 and Outlook 2003. In contrast, Office 2003 Small Business Edition will be widely available through a number of channels, including retailers, and will include everything in Microsoft's Office 2003 Standard Edition along with several additional applications. But that package, available only from computer manufacturers as a preinstalled product, is essentially a stripped-down, low-cost edition that removes PowerPoint from the Office bundle and replaces it with Microsoft Publisher, a desktop publishing application. Microsoft already has an Office bundle branded for small business, Office XP Small Business Edition. Like Office XP, Office 2003 will have three widely available retail versions: Professional, Standard and the new Small Business edition. FrontPage will continue to be sold on its own, he said. Microsoft instead will encourage developers to use a new set of tools, tentatively named "Visual Studio Tools for Office," that will be released in conjunction with Office 2003, said Simon Marks, product manager for Microsoft Office.