Enabling Collaboration for Everyone Office XP will enable teams to work together more effectively by dramatically improving the way people collaborate on documents and by providing tight integration with an exciting new Web-based application for managing team projects, content and activities. The collaborative document creation and review process has been dramatically improved, as individuals can now send documents for review directly from individual applications and easily manage the workflow process of comparing and merging multiple documents. Editing, accepting, and rejecting changes can be easily managed through a new user interface. Documents reviewed by multiple reviewers can also be easily merged into one complete document. Using only a Web browser, team members can create contact and task lists, event calendars, libraries for storing documents, and surveys.
Teams can also have newsgroup discussions and be notified when content on the site changes.
Expanding Solution Opportunities for Organizations Office XP will provide organizations with a rich platform for creating Web-based business solutions that improve accessing and reporting of critical business data, enable tight integration between Office and other applications, and with tools to build collaboration and workflow applications that help teams work together more effectively. This enables organizations to build solutions that integrate Excel or Access as a front end to XML based data structures to improve corporate reporting and analysis. Extensible Smart Tag Architecture Customizable smart tags allow solution development that translates business process information from Office XP into other applications. This enables developers to quickly link together relevant applications, processes and data. The result is rich and productive user applications.