Hi Jim,
Office 11 is schedule for release in June 2003, but I have read article about the beta currently being tested. Office has really been a fast moving product not to have changed much since office 97. There have been 5 upgrades of office over the past 8 years, all marketed as must have versions by Microsoft. I wonder if Office 11 is now completely dependent on the .Net framework. I think the market will be slow in adopting it. Office 11 will only run under 2000/XP OS.