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Office
2000 To Go Gold Next Week
Microsoft will release Office 2000 to manufacturing next week
in preparation for April availability to select corporate customers, sources
said. At its Office 2000 Deployment Conference in New Orleans next
week, Microsoft officials will announce the Office 2000 testing is complete and
will be available to licensed customers on CDs beginning in April, company
sources said. The shrink-wrapped Office 2000 box will be available to retailers
starting in early June, several retail sources said. "We're very close to it," said one source. "It
will be completed by the end of the first quarter as promised. We're reaching
that milestone." The Redmond, Wash.-based company also will detail next week a
host of resources being provided to IT and reseller professionals to push Office
2000 as well as the forthcoming BackOffice 4.5 suite through Microsoft TechNet,
Microsoft Direct Access and the Microsoft Certified Solution Provider Programs. Microsoft said it plans to release five versions of the
Web-centric Office upgrade, including Office 2000 Premium, Office 2000
Developer, Office 2000 Standard, Office 2000 Professional and Office 2000 Small
Business Edition. The Small Business Edition will incorporate a number of
small-business tools including a Business Planner component, sources said. Microsoft first introduced Office 2000 at PC Expo last June
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