Office 2003 hit the retail shelves in late October, although volume buyers could get it a month earlier. The release also will include fixes and security bolstering as part of the company’s continued security push, code-named Springboard, the sources said.
The service pack “is still in the early development stages, so anything we say about it would only be speculation right now, as a lot can change during the development process,” said Dan Leach, lead product manager of the Information Worker Product Management Group, through a spokeswoman.
Microsoft has acknowledged that Watson and new tools including Service Quality Monitor (SQM) are key in the development of the Longhorn Office release, also known as Office 12.
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