The Microsoft Office System
Scot P. Hillier · Apress eBooks · 2004
Along with upgrades to the Windows operating systems, upgrades to the Office suite form the financial backbone of Microsoft. To support this business model, Microsoft has traditionally focused on improving the feature set of the Office suite. Customers were asked to upgrade based on new fonts, new toolbars, new editing capabilities, and the like. With Office 2003, Microsoft has changed its focus from features to collaboration. Everything in the Office suite is designed to allow teams to work together more effectively, and SharePoint Services forms the foundation for the collaboration. When referring to the combined capabilities of Office 2003, SharePoint Services, and SharePoint Portal Server (SPS), Microsoft uses the term Office System. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.