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Microsoft Office 2003

2003 — 2014 · Microsoft
retired Reported · 2014

“OneNote was born here; the rest is sticky notes and nostalgia.”

Released to manufacturing on August 19, 2003 (codename Office 11), Microsoft Office 2003 was the suite that rebranded Office as an integrated system for information workers, appending Office to every program name. It introduced two new programs to the lineup: InfoPath for designing and submitting structured data forms, and OneNote for organizing diagrams, graphics, handwritten notes, recorded audio, and text. It also

Office 2003 retired quietly in 2014 after more than a decade of faithful service, a natural end rather than a tragic one. Its Mac counterpart, Office 2004 for Mac, arrived in May 2004, but the Windows original was where a generation of information workers learned their trade. What it left behind, above all, was OneNote, which outlived the suite that first carried it.

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