The key question about any Microsoft upgrade is, “But do I need it?” With Office 2003, the choice is between carrying on as before, adequately, or joining a collaborative vision that happens to help Microsoft in its quest to take over the world.

Everyone knows, but none more so than Microsoft, that Office and Windows won`t be profit machines forever. In one way, this observation hints at the value – to Microsoft at least – of Office 2003`s maturing vision of integration and collaboration. Of more sweeping significance is that this vision for Microsoft permeates all the way through the enterprise and beyond.