Microsoft’s Office 2000:

Microsoft previewed its Office 2000 beta version to more than 500 customers in June. Herb Bethoney, of PCWeek was so impressed with the new Office suite he wrote, "Even at this early stage, PCWeek Labs found Office 2000 offers enough productivity gains that companies already using Office should seriously consider migrating".

One major reason for upgrading is that the new version is Y2K compliant, where as Office 97 is lacking. This is an important bonus to meeting compliant issues.

Another added benefit is that it is designed to help people in business turn information into an asset. Microsoft accomplished this by collaborating with the Internet. Microsoft realizes the Internet is a very important part of the business environment, and has focused a great deal of resources to incorporate the Web into Office 2000.

Web based analysis tools will enable better decision making for businesses. One aspect of this feature is the ability to create and design web pages more easily. Therefore, businesses can make changes to their Web pages as desired without any hassles.

IS managers will enjoy the benefits of Office 2000. Benefits of global architecture will allow managers to realize more savings in the cost of deploying, supporting, and administering Office software.

Some of the new features of Office 2000 are:

	The ability to Post documents from all Office applications, directly to the Web, and receive feedback via the Web.
	Creating Web pages using any Office application.
	Installing on demand technology – install only the features they need, and run other Office components from the server.

Story Written by Grant Rinehart

A List of ECS Services

Backup Statistics

• On average backups are incomplete 10 times per month.

Y2K

• ECS does perform hardware and software Y2K evaluations.
• ECS can verify if your backup is complete

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• ECS has Disaster Recovery plans to fit every budget.

Internet Connectivity

• Get your office hooked up to the net.

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