Sean Akers wrote:

I don't think Office XP will be a big success. After all, Office 2000 wasn't. In general, people will only use XP if it comes with their machine plus the product activation and subscription based upgrades will put many people off.

We're still using Office 97 at work with no intension of 'upgrading'. Anyone who wants to exchange documents with us must use Office 97 or 95 format and I expect many companies will enforce require this. There are so many '97 users out there, it'll remain the standard for quite a while to come

I hope you're right about the "standard" format. It gives some hope both for StarOffice and for products such as Win4Lin, the Windows emulator (which, I'm afraid, may have problems with XP). Paul