This is true, MS has decided to abandon roughly 65% of the MS user base by doing this, this includes both consumers and corporate users. MS wants to have as their customer base on XP and Server 2003 or at the very least win2k SP3.
One admin told me he tried installing this product on win2k without SP3 and it told him to install SP3. Nice way to force licensing 6 on the users :(
Maybe MS will allow some of Office 11, or a reduced functionality version to be made available for 9x/NT as they have extended support for 98 recently as well.
Meanwhile Sun is following the MS example by offering it's StarOffice 6.1 beta for download here http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/beta/index.html
Peter Kaulback
In the hour of 09:35 PM 11/03/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke this:
Peter,
To make sure that everyone understands about this version of Office, Office 11 will ONLY be for 2K and XP systems, since individuals might think that it since it was only in Beta, it would support the 9x line of Windows when finally released.
This is the first time that MS has decided to completely abandon the 9x line of Windows OSs with its apps. Previously, they were abandoning free support for the OS itself but they still were writing the apps such as Office and others so they still could at least run on a 98 or ME based system. With Office 11 even that is now being eliminated it would seem.
Ralph
Peter Kaulback wrote: > > MS is offering the new beta of Office 11 to the public for $20.00. Bear in > mind it only works on XP SP1 and win2k SP3. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.asp > > Peter Kaulback
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