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Microsoft Accidentally Slips Office 2003 Beta Onto The Web
Internetweek.com ^
| February 20, 2003
| Techweb News
Posted on 02/21/2003 3:30:12 PM PST by Dont Mention the War
Microsoft Accidentally Slips Office 2003 Beta Onto The Web
By Techweb NewsMicrosoft mistakenly posted the second beta of the newest Office to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), but yanked it several hours later.
The sneak, which several users were able to download before Microsoft withdrew the posting, revealed that the suite will be called Office 2003 when it releases mid-2003, as TechWeb reported earlier.
Other tidbits gleaned from the brief appearance include the bundling -- in the beta, at least -- of the OneNote and InfoPath applications, as well as the inclusion of SharePoint Portal Server 2.0.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Technical
KEYWORDS: microsoft; msduh; techindex
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To: chilepepper
10.70139 billion shares, to be exact, yes.
To: Dont Mention the War
Slightly off topic, is there any way to remove the little icons from Office 2000 menus. Since I can read (!), I don't need little pictograms of the text commands, so for me all the little icons do is make the menus gigantic.
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posted on
02/22/2003 7:15:02 AM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Petronski
Slightly off topic, is there any way to remove the little icons from Office 2000 menus. Since I can read (!), I don't need little pictograms of the text commands Why, you insensitive clod! Where do you get off saying that only people who can read should be able to use word processing software?
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posted on
02/22/2003 8:46:19 AM PST
by
steve-b
To: chilepepper
There are now, after the split and I am NOT making this up, 10 BILLION SHARES OF MICROSOFT!!!!
Still pissed that you weren't smart enough to buy any 10 years ago? Here's a tissue. Have a good cry...
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posted on
02/22/2003 10:32:40 AM PST
by
Bush2000
To: Petronski
Yes, there is: Hover the cursor over the toolbars/menus at the top of the Word window; click on the right mouse button; choose Customize; then click on the Toolbar tab. Uncheck the "Standard" selection, and they will disappear. However, be sure you want to remove the icons, because they actually save a lot of time for performing the most-used functions.
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posted on
02/22/2003 10:44:52 AM PST
by
DennisR
To: NativeNewYorker
Open office. It works! It's free! I am a big fan of Open Office- but I do find bugs in it from time to time. It is expected, and isn't a big issue to me.
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posted on
02/22/2003 10:49:38 AM PST
by
Riley
To: Bush2000
Do the math (you can do math, can't you?)
10 billion shares @ $47/share = $470 billion dollars capitalization...
Sounds like a ponzi scheme to me...
To: chilepepper
>>10 BILLION SHARES OF MICROSOFT!!!! <<
And 9.9 B belong to Billy boy, right?
To: DennisR
No, I don't want to delete the toolbar, I am talking about the icons that appear on the drop-down menus. If you click on file, for instance, you will see a little sheet of paper next to 'New' a little diskette next to 'Save' a little printer next to 'Print' etc., all displayed right on the drop down menu itself. They air-out the menu too much, requiring scrolling of the menus, which is very annoying.
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posted on
02/22/2003 12:10:40 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: chilepepper
Sounds like a ponzi scheme to me...
And quite obviously, you haven't benefited from any of that wealth creation, sour grapes boy...
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posted on
02/22/2003 5:13:56 PM PST
by
Bush2000
To: Petronski
I am talking about the icons that appear on the drop-down menus...
That's pretty weak. Most human beings are visual-oriented and find it easier to associate icons with specific tasks...
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posted on
02/22/2003 5:15:22 PM PST
by
Bush2000
To: ContentiousObjector
MSN Instant Messanger is intergrated into Office, I don't know what kind of feature that is.All these added features are what MS biggest customer base asks for. Office and 'other' productivity suites are aimed at the business desktop not the home desktop.
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posted on
02/22/2003 5:20:10 PM PST
by
PFKEY
To: Dont Mention the War
And of course, since "validation" is included in the new version of Office, the second anyone using it logs onto the web, MS will immediately shut it down.I'm in the midst of transitioning to Open Office - does it all, without all the MS load of used food, plus gives you full compatibility with anyone who's unlucky enough to have to stick with Micro$not.
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posted on
02/22/2003 5:34:16 PM PST
by
mhking
("The word is no. I am therefore going anyway..." --Admiral J.T. Kirk)
To: PFKEY
I buy hardware and software for a fortune 1000 company,
the only people who use MSN Messenger are teenagers and pedophiles trying to score with the teenagers using MSN
To: ContentiousObjector
And what type of messeging software do these fortune 1000 companies use/purchase?
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posted on
02/22/2003 5:38:08 PM PST
by
PFKEY
To: PFKEY
We use Lotus Notes
To: ContentiousObjector
And that would be the one I'm familiar with too. Is Sametime integrated into Lotus Notes?
Retorical question.
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posted on
02/22/2003 5:48:20 PM PST
by
PFKEY
To: Bush2000
That's pretty weak. Weak? This isn't a criticism, it's an appeal for help.
Most people can read more quickly than they can spot an icon and interpret its intended use.
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posted on
02/22/2003 8:17:05 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Bush2000
>>Sounds like a ponzi scheme to me...
>And quite obviously, you haven't benefited from any of that
>wealth creation, sour grapes boy.
Glad to see that you agree that Microsoft is a ponzi scheme...
A $470 Billion valuation of Microsoft is absurd, but goes a long way in explaining M$'s outrageous licensing (which will ultimately doom the company)
To: ContentiousObjector
every release of Microsoft Office since Office 97 has just been adding superficial garbage What burns me is why does Word 2002 always take several seconds to quit, even given that it's running on a dusty old 333 mhz, Windows 98 box. Not to write off its file... to quit after writing off the file, or even just using it to look at the file. The most I can see is that it's writing off template.dot, but that's only a relatively few kilobytes, onto a hard drive with an 8 meg cache. Can you say bloooooooooooat!
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posted on
02/22/2003 10:08:55 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(more dangerous than an OrangeNeck)
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