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Subject:    Office 11 Cuts the Cord to Windows 95, 98, 98SE, Me, NT
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-10-30 8:56:15
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Eugenia Loli-Queru writes on OSNews:
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=2034
Office 11 Cuts the Cord to Windows 95, 98, 98SE, Me, NT

Microsoft Corp. has told beta testers of Office 11, its next-version Office 
desktop productivity suite, that the product will only work with the Windows 
2000 operating system with Service Pack 3 installed, Windows XP and later 
desktop releases. While Office 11 is slated for release next year, today 
Win9x/ME/NT OSes still hold about 52% of the overall OS market, and by next 
year's Office release, this is still expected to be around 40%. This is a 
tremendous amount of sales getting wasted (Office is the main income for 
Microsoft), but Microsoft said that this decision was mostly taken in order 
to incorporate new technologies on Office that are only available on the 
2k/XP OSes, and also for security reasons ("Windows 9x is inherently 
insecure" Sloan Crayton of Microsoft said).

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Looks like an excellent opportunity for KOffice?

Would we get MS Word .doc Export for KWord by early 2003?

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