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Installation And Deployment GuideInstallation and Deployment Guide Choosing an Installation Method The service pack supports the following installation methods: * The ..... Along with delivery of the new Office beta, Microsoft will again attempt to get users and developers focused on what it is now calling Microsoft Office System 2003. This is a strategic concept that aims to tie tightly together Office 2003 and the upcoming Windows Server 2003 with a number of XML-based products and technologies, including Windows SharePoint, information rights management, and intelligent mail management
With the incorporation of more XML-based capabilities, along with its Visual Basic Application (VBA) tools, Microsoft is also attempting to get corporate and third-party developers to think of the upcoming suite more as a development environment than just a collection of separate applications. In doing so, Microsoft thinks it will accelerate the development of applications that integrate better with each other on the desktop as well as work seamlessly with Windows and non-Windows-based server applications.
"XML and VBA should open up a lot of new possibilities in terms of how developers can architect their [desktop] apps in order to work with a range of different servers. Users have a lot of data locked up in both Word and Excel and their server apps [that] they will now be able to get at," said Joe Andreshak, technical product manager in Microsoft's Information Worker Business Group.
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