Chris PratleyLead Program ManagerMicrosoft Office.pptVIP

Chris Pratley Lead Program Manager Microsoft Office Overview Office Unicode strategy Implementation Benefits of Unicode to Office users Demo of Word2000 Office Unicode Strategy Office97 driving factors Customers operate world-wide (US only 40%) Need to handle multiple code pages in Europe Office97 goals Enable loss-less file exchange world-wide Solve code page problems in Europe Development efficiency for Asian and Euro versions Unified source code base – but still different executables Unified development process Delta between language versions shrinks from 18 to 2 months Lay foundation for f