Microsoft confirms Office 11 only for latest OS
Another News.com story confirming earlier suspicions -- a good marketing move on the part of Microsoft in ensuring that it will continue to ratchet up revenues next year between XP and the Office suite sales. May not be good for customers since they'll have to pay for it, although I have to admit that XP seems much more stable than anything I'd used by Microsoft in the past.
A representative acknowledged that Microsoft plans to offer the productivity suite, code-named Office 11, only for Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 and Windows XP.
Microsoft started beta testing Office 11 last week, but some early participants found that they had been dropped from the program if they had planned to use older versions of Windows. They were dropped because Microsoft doesn't plan to offer Office 11 for Windows 98, 98 Second Edition, Me or NT. The Redmond, Wash.-based company already dropped support for Windows 95 with the release of Office XP in May 2001.