Microsoft has announced that support for Office 2000 ends on July 14th, with Office Update closing on August 1st. In case management and application development members think "well that’s an old version, nobody hacking it anymore", 15 bugs were fixed this year, 12 critical. If you are thinking of upgrading, Office 2007 uses a new format. I would suggest using Open Office unless you using a lot of macros in your Office. Open Office can read your Word documents, but uses an open, readable format. My kids use Open Office for their school work, even though the school requires Word. The best part is that Open Office is free. Try it out in a test environment, and let some of your users try it out for a while. People are change adverse, but there can be valid concerns. Document the issues and create a transition document if you decide to use it in your business.
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