Microsoft 'retired' Office 2003

From June 30 onwards, the group stopped providing Office 2003 office applications to OEM equipment manufacturers and focused on marketing the 2007 Microsoft Office version.

This means that the production partners no longer have a 2003 version in the warehouse that will have to use the new office suite since July.

Customers signing agreements in large quantities (such as businesses with hundreds of computers) can still run the old version by activating the contractual concession from Office 2007 to Office 2003. The office suite of houses OEM original equipment production does not have this rebate right.

Office suites in the past 10 years have been sold at a slow pace because users have lingered with older versions. This is a difficult problem for Microsoft because office applications are an important product in its business operations.