Microsoft Office 2003
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Clockwise from top-right: Word, Publisher, PowerPoint, Excel, on Windows 10.
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Initial release | August 19, 2003 |
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Service Pack 3 (11.0.8173.0) / September 18, 2007
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| Development status | Discontinued |
| Operating system | Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 |
| Platform | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Office suite |
| License | Trialware and software as a service (Microsoft Software Assurance) |
| Website | office |
Microsoft Office 2003 is an office suite written and distributed by Microsoft for their Windows operating system. Released to manufacturing on August 19, 2003 and launched on October 21, 2003, it was the successor to Office XP and the predecessor to Office 2007. It is the final version of Office to have the "97-2003" file format as default across all applications, as well as being the final version to include the toolbar and menu interfaces across the core applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and parts of Outlook). A compatibility pack was released for Office 2003 for new OOXML formats in 2007.
A new Office logo was debuted as part of a rebranding effort by Microsoft, as well as two new applications: InfoPath and OneNote. OneNote is a note-taking and organizing application for text, handwritten notes or diagrams, recorded audio and graphics, and InfoPath is an application for designing, distributing, filling and submitting electronic forms containing structured data. Office 2003 was the first version to use Windows XP style icons, visual styles and colors. However, Office 2003 could automatically match colors of Windows XP themes.
Office 2003 runs only on NT-based versions of Windows; it is not supported on Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows NT 4.0. It is the last version of Office compatible with Windows 2000, as Office 2007 requires Windows XP or newer. It is listed as being "Not Compatible" with Windows 8 by the Microsoft Windows 8 Compatibility Center, although most users have claimed it is compatible.
Service Pack 1 for Office 2003 was released on July 27, 2004, Service Pack 2 was released on September 27, 2005, and Service Pack 3 was released on September 17, 2007. The last cumulative update for Office 2003, Service Pack 3 resolved several compatibility and stability issues with Windows Vista and later operating systems, and is a roll-up release that contains Service Packs 1 and 2 along with other updates previously released under Windows Update. Mainstream support for Office 2003 ended April 14, 2009, and extended support ended on April 8, 2014, the same time as Windows XP.
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