Office now takes a more intelligent approach and requests the cdrom so that it can install it. Those who manage networks might offer everyone a typical set of features, and leave Office to install new ones as people need them. It should save on disc space and save on their being hassled too. Time will tell. Office for the Macintosh on a different development schedule to the PC, so with PC and Mac editions leapfrogging each other over the years, Apple users are at least spared the decision to upgrade or not.
Office nevertheless offers something for all but the typist.
Those running it across networks and intranets can make some educational visions become real and put them to the test. Make no mistake, Office 2000 is interesting and for those with time to experiment a way to go. It's down to network politics as to whether such power is ever offered to the people. Click here for Addresses of education suppliers .