Office Moves Beyond The PC

摘要

It's Time To Rethink the world's most widely used PC applications suite. When Microsoft ships Office 2003 this summer, "PC," "applications," and "suite" may no longer be the best terms to describe where the software runs, what it does, or how it's packaged. Office 2003 is an integrated collection of desktop applications, software services, and server-based collaboration technologies. Microsoft calls it, simply, the Office 2003 System. To understand how different, comprehensive, and complex Office has become since its days as a mere word processor and spreadsheet, just open the kit Microsoft shipped a few weeks ago when Office 2003 went into its second round of testing. The complete package―15 CDs―includes not only eight upgraded applications and three new ones, but development tools and server software that will let businesses use Office 2003 in innovative ways.