Microsoft online chat: Upgrading to OfficeXP

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Upgrading to OfficeXP

Has your company purchased Office XP upgrade licenses, but you still haven't determined the best and easiest way to perform the upgrade? Why not get the answers from Microsoft's TechNet experts?

June 9, 2003
Time: 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern/16:00 GMT/17:00 BST

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The official word from Patchou is as follows:

"I don't want to be rude but if you boycot version 2.10.36, you're an idiot."

SpywareInfo recommends that users boycott the software and stay as far away from Patchou's Messenger Plus! as possible. I feel that advice is a little over the top considering the sponsor program is optional. Only users of Windows 98/2000 or those with Windows Messenger 5/MSN Messenger 5 are currently installing the latest plus!. For those seeking to use MSN Messenger 6 on Windows XP, the software is incompatible at the moment. Maybe once Patchou and his team have updated this we'll hear even more complaints about the sponsorship program. Who knows.

(3 replies) #1 xStainDx on 09 Jun 2003 - 15:45

Interesting.... Thought they'd want to host a chat on Upgrading to Office 2003.

#1.1 Jason on 09 Jun 2003 - 16:10

Office XP gets them money now, Office 2003 gets them money later

#1.2 daveoc64 on 09 Jun 2003 - 16:10

The news post says:

Has your company purchased Office XP upgrade licenses, but you still haven't determined the best and easiest way to perform the upgrade? Why not get the answers from Microsoft's TechNet experts?

So if you have bought them you wont just throw them away will you.

#1.3 Avenger on 09 Jun 2003 - 19:35

The Deployment and Setup Chat for Office 2003 was on May 15. Similar.

#2 creamhackered on 09 Jun 2003 - 16:32

from the chat "There are many organizations that can not upgrade to Office System 2003 due to hardware or software constraints. If there is a Line of Business Application written to run under an existing version of Office that is not compatible with Office 2003 then they will not be able to upgrade till that issue is resolved." Also for users of Windows 98 and NT 4.0 you simply can't upgrade to Office 2003 so XP will be your only option.

#3 antsy on 09 Jun 2003 - 17:57

What sort of fool is going to buy office XP?

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