Office XP?? Office 2003??

[Dana Ciardi]

Can someone please tell me if Office XP is a different
and separate version of the Office suite than Office
2003? Or - are they one and the same??

 

[DDM]

Dana, they are different. Office XP was released back in 2001, while Office
2003, the current version, was released last fall.

DDM
"DDM's Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks"
http://ddmara.tripod.com

 

[JulieD]

Hi Dana

yep, they're different & separate & each costs money
Office XP's other "name" is Office 2002

Cheers
JulieD

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually, Office XP is not Office 2002, but the individual components use
that number (Word 2002, not Word XP, for example). This caused so much
confusion that I think MS won't do it again. It was also surprising that the
version that came out in *late* 2003 was Office 2003; we would have expected
Office 2004 based on previous practice. It is sometimes more helpful to
refer to the versions by version number (if you're trying to track things
down in the Registry, for example, you need this information):

2.0: Word 2.0 for Windows
6.0: Word 6.0 for Windows
7.0: Word for Windows 95
8.0: Word 97
9.0: Word 2000
10.0: Word 2002
11.0: Word 2003

The official explanation of the jump from 2 to 6 was that this was to keep
the Windows version in synch with the (moribund) DOS versioning, but many
cynics said it was to keep pace with WordPerfect. WP on the other hand had
brought out 5.1 for DOS and 5.2 for Windows at the same time but soon
upgraded to 6.0 for both DOS and Windows IIRC.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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