Microsoft Office 2003 gets rubbed out

WinInfo | at | by Mike

Users pining for the old menu-and-toolbar UI from Office 2003 have about a week left before Microsoft pulls the plug: At the end of June, Microsoft will stop shipping Office 2003 to customers and will provide only the newer Office 2007 instead. That said, copies of Office 2003 will remain in stock at various brick and mortar and electronic retailers for months to come, so it's not like the product will instantly disappear. Mainstream support for Office 2003 continues through January 2009, and extended support ends in January 2014. I'm sure we'll all be running the Microsoft Surface version of Office by then.