Microsoft Corp today announced the general availability of the new Microsoft Office System with launch events taking place around the world. Microsoft South Africa hosted key business customers to introduce the new system.
With six suites, 11 products, four servers, one service and Solution Accelerators, the new Microsoft Office System is evidence of Microsoft`s focus on helping information workers, the teams they work on, and the companies they work for become more productive and achieve their goals.
The Microsoft Office System consists of the 2003 versions of the core Office suites and programs; updates to other information work programs such as Visio, FrontPage, Publisher and Project; two completely new programs, Microsoft Office OneNote and Microsoft Office InfoPath; and four servers, including the new Office Live Communications Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003.
Added to that are additional services, such as Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and solutions that help people and their organisations make greater use of information, collaborate more effectively, and easily integrate business processes to increase individual, team and organisational productivity.
"The new Office System is a major leap forward for information workers," said Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft. "It makes information work more productive - and more profitable - by offering innovative new ways to communicate, to find and share information, and to manage complex projects."
"The new Microsoft Office System presents a clear opportunity for organisations - both small and large - to increase employee productivity and the value of business information, as well as realise a higher return on investment," said Jeff Raikes, group vice-president of Productivity and Business Services at Microsoft. "The integrated products and services within the Microsoft Office System are designed to help companies more completely address their business problems."
"The Microsoft Office System is the result of one of the largest and most successful development efforts and beta tests of Microsoft products ever," says Gordon Frazer, Managing Director at Microsoft South Africa. "Our goal is ambitious - to improve personal, team and organisational productivity by addressing a broad array of business processes."
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The Microsoft Office System is an easy way to help more people use information to positively impact their business. Through a system of familiar and easy-to-use programs, servers, services and solutions, users can connect people and organisations to information, business processes and each other - helping ensure that they derive the most value out of information.
The Microsoft Office System consists of the 2003 editions of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office Project and Project Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Office Publisher 2003, Microsoft Office Visio 2003 and the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerators. Enabling technologies, such as Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Windows Server 2003, enhance the features and functionality of products in the Microsoft Office System.