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Microsoft Office 2000 U.S. Sales Drag
by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

Globally, Microsoft Office 2000 is booming at the sales counter. But in the States, it's doggin' out.

Blame it on the delay of Windows 2000, the Y2K millennium bug, whatever you want, but the Microsofties responsible for pushing Office 2000 are hanging their heads low in Redmond this quarter.

Our research reports that IS managers are holding off for the release of Windows 2000 and then preparing for a 1-time upgrade of both the OS, Win2000, and the applications, Office 2000.

We've been using Office 2000 since late this spring, and it's great. Much easier to learn than earlier versions, and much faster in some of our heavy, data-intensive operations. For general office use, it's about equal in performance to Office 97...and it's a bit slower than predecessors on machines with less than 64MB of RAM and a 300MHz processor.

Our web-survey reports that a bit over 51% of Office users have already upgraded to Office 2000.

What do you think? Have you upgraded to Office 2000? If not, when will you? Leave your comments on the message center.

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updated October 20, 1999
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