Delivering an exciting new set of experiences that provide a smarter way of working.

The new XP in Microsoft® Office XP reflects a change in the way Microsoft’s customers should think about interacting with software. XP is short for experience. It symbolizes and introduces customers to an exciting new set of experiences uniquely enabled in Office XP. These experiences enable customers to unlock their creativity and productivity through the power of Microsoft software and the Internet. Office XP also represents an important step in delivering on the Microsoft .NET vision of empowering customers to move beyond disconnected applications, services, and devices to complete computing experiences, thus redefining the relationship between people, software, and the Internet.

Office XP is the most significant version of Office ever released. It redefines the relationship between people and software by delivering an exciting new set of experiences that provide a smarter way of working. Office XP delivers the personal experience, simplifying the way individuals work; the collaborative experience, enabling people to easily collaborate on documents and work more effectively with others; and the extended Office experience enabling them to continually integrate additional services into Office and easily access information anytime.

Includes:

• Word 2002
• Excel 2002
• Outlook 2002
• Publisher 2002
• Small Bus.Tools

Whether you are an information technology (IT) administrator, a small business owner, a worker in an organization, or someone working from home, you are an individual user of Office.

>Personal Experience

• Office XP is designed to offer a variety of personal experiences that will help simplify the way people work. Office XP also offers a higher level of reliability, data recovery, and security. Office XP was designed to give users the tools they need to discover and use more of the product, giving users new functionality that helps them be more productive. Office XP makes it simple for users to access information on the Web, in their organization, or on their computer.

>Collaborative Experience

• Office XP enables teams to share information and work together more effectively. Office XP gives users an easy way to review, compare, and merge documents with others via e-mail without changing anything about the way they do things today. Scheduling meetings, sharing information on the Web, and improving response time are all customer concerns and Office XP delivers unique ways to facilitate the coordination and communication with team members both inside and outside of a user’s organization.

>Organizational Experience

• Office XP offers the tools that help organizations build and edit powerful and collaborative solutions, and to lower costs associated with deploying, managing, and administering Office applications.