ActiveWin has put up a preview on Microsoft Office XP Beta 2.

In this day and age if in the home or the office you need to write a letter, send an email, create a marketing presentation or do a spreadsheet, most people turn to Microsoft Office. As newer versions of Office have come out over the years, we have seen tighter integration between the different applications making it quicker, far easier and simpler to transfer that spreadsheet you did with Excel into your Microsoft Word application. About six years ago domination of Microsoft Office wasn't so important as there were several competing office software suites like WordPerfect & Lotus SmartSuite that offered a real plus over Microsoft Office: that's why Microsoft applied itself to catch up by adding more features in its suite. Over the past few years, Microsoft Office completely changed its look by including some revolutionary applications that most users weren't even able to dream about, like Schedule + the first that was then replaced by Outlook, Microsoft FrontPage a leading website authoring tool, Microsoft PhotoDraw to let corporate users quickly edit & touch up their pictures and many more. Microsoft Office XP should be the first angular stone of the pre-Microsoft .NET strategy even if according to recent reports it'd be less elaborated than expected.

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