Were there a lot of people involved in making Office XP a world-class product?
There were many contributors to Office XP, externally from other companies and internally at Microsoft. We worked hand-in-hand with over 10,000 beta customers for many months. Over 3,000 beta customers have been giving us feedback since August. Weve also worked with many customers over the past few years to get feedback on what types of features they would like to see in Office. Weve built on input from our advisory councils, newsgroups, usability studies, on-site customer visits, executive level feedback from corporate partners, input from product support, instrumented studies and a multitude of customer research to ensure were incorporating customer feedback every step of the way. Our internal effort has also been massive. Over 20,000 employees at Microsoft are currently running Office XP and relying on it every day. We have tested Office XP for compatibility with the several hundred line-of-business applications used within Microsoft. Our internal technology group and employees thro
