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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (104787)	2/25/1999 8:00:00 AM
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Mohan, Now that Ford will be getting new Dell computers it's time to to decide which software to load. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Office 2000 racks up two big corporate wins By Anne Knowles, PC Week Online February 24, 1999 4:27 PM ET Microsoft Corp. this week received commitments from two large corporations to deploy its forthcoming Office 2000. Ford Motor Co. and Shell Services International plan to roll out the productivity software suite to users in more than 30 countries worldwide. At the same time, Microsoft announced Office 2000 Proofing Tools and Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack, two global features of the suite, which is scheduled to ship in the second quarter. "Ford and Shell will be deploying Office 2000 because of the global features," said John Duncan, Office product manager for Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. Shell Services International is a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell Group. The Proofing Tools, which will sell at retail for $79.95 shortly after Office 2000 ships, will provide users with grammar and spell checking, a thesaurus and all of the suite's other proofing aids in 30 languages, said Duncan. The MultiLanguage Pack, which will be available through Microsoft's volume license program, will let users change the interface on the suite's applications on the fly to render it in 25 different languages. In addition, said Duncan, Office 2000's Excel spreadsheet will support the Euro currency symbol, while Word will have an auto language detect feature that lets users type in various languages in the same document. A single executable For global corporations, though, the most important aspect of Office 2000 may that the various language versions of the suite will now have a single executable, said Duncan. That will allow IT managers to deploy the same version of the application worldwide, he said. Car maker Ford participated in Microsoft's Office Advisory Council, a group of 15 corporate customers who worked with Microsoft during development of the Office upgrade. Other enhancements to Office 2000 include the addition of HTML as a file format and the ability to uses pieces of the suite through the new Install on Demand feature. But the suite has received a lukewarm response from IT managers, who say the enhancements aren't attractive enough to warrant an immediate upgrade. Microsoft will announce Office 2000 pricing closer to the suite's ship date, said Duncan.