[Macpartners] Microsoft Office 2003 Release Effort Underway Announcement

[Bryant C. Vernon]

Date: Friday, 19 December 2003

To: MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, macpartners at mit.edu,
sw-release-announce at mit.edu, ed-tech at mit.edu, kakapo at mit.edu

Cc: itag at mit.edu, infosys at mit.edu

From: Software Release Team

Subject: Microsoft Office 2003 Release Effort Underway Announcement

 

Good Afternoon,

 

I am pleased to announce that the Microsoft Office 2003 release effort has
begun. Microsoft Office 2003 is the latest version of the Office
productivity suite from Microsoft for the Windows platform and includes
Word, Excel PowerPoint, and Outlook.

 

Unlike previous release efforts for Microsoft Office which involved
community testing as well as exhaustive functionality and compatibility
testing, this release effort will focus primarily on compatibility testing,
basic functionality testing, and identifying and documenting issues
specifically relevant to the MIT computing environment. Furthermore, there
will be no community testing. These changes reflect a general change in the
release effort process for shrink-wrapped software. Their effect is to
maintain the high quality of support while decreasing the time necessary to
release the product to the MIT community.

 

New Features and Improvements to Microsoft Office include: 

 

-Office 2003 Pro includes additional support for Extensible Markup Language

(XML)

-Word 2003 Formatting and Editing Restrictions maintain formatting structure
and document integrity

 

 

For a complete list of new features, please reference the Microsoft Office

2003 Reviewer's Guide

(http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/guide.mspx) or visit the

Microsoft Office 2003 Product Information Site

(http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/default.mspx).

 

The Microsoft Office 2003 Release Team will send updates throughout the
process. For more information on Microsoft Office 2003 and the release
effort, see the

Microsoft Office 2003 release notebook at

http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/office. If you have questions, suggestions,

or would like to participate in the release of Microsoft Office 2003, please

contact the team via email at office-release at mit.edu.

 

All the Best,

Bryant C. Vernon

Microsoft Office 2003 Product Release Coordinator

Software Release Team

 

 

 

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