Well, it won't be Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition. You also won't be running Office 2000 for productivity software and your Internet Explorer browser version will not be 5.5. Instead, it will be Office XP and IE 6 respectively. Chances are your operating system will be Windows XP, which was codenamed Whistler and is due out this fall.
All products are in various stages of beta testing.
Last week, in a somewhat gutsy move, I decided to test all the new software at the same time. It quickly replaced my existing version of Office 2000 but kept all the settings within each application like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and so on. Office XP is ideal for journalists as it allows for document sharing and reviewing by posting them to a shared Web server. There is a built-in OCR package for converting scanned documents to text and speech recognition as well. For example, I highlighted 100 rows in an Excel document and had Excel read the numbers back to me.