Microsoft Office 2003: Infopath and OneNote...thoughts?

[SpeedStreet]

Has anyone here been privy to the MS beta team or checked out copies of the new Office 2003 suite?

I've been poking around with it, and I am not sure if even as a small business user, I will ever find a viable use for Infopath or OneNote.

What are your thoughts? Are these programs at all useful?

[N9ne]

What are Infopath and OneNote? What can they do?

[Wayne Luke]

Infopath is a datamining program which allows you to view data in different ways to determine trends and phases your market goes through.
http://office.microsoft.com/home/off...ES790020011033

Onenote is a Notetaking program that allows you to organize your notes in a fashion that suits you
http://office.microsoft.com/home/off...ES790020011033

[tubedogg]

OneNote is supposed to be a great program, made even more great by the fact that it's a 1.0 of a Microsoft program that doesn't suck.

[N9ne]

OneNote looks interesting, I may use that

[SpeedStreet]

OneNote looks interesting, I may use that

I just don't understand what it has better that WordPad doesn't give me

[Scott MacVicar]

Ask Joe (Asendin) he gets the majority of MS beta stuff.

[Zecherieh]

Both of them are awesome, I have uses here and there for them both and have to say I am more than impressed with them.

Very nice, very easy to use.

[merk]

I use both products.

Infopath, i use for a company to have many sorts of forms ready to print, you just chuck details in and it fills the form for you.

Onenote, i use on my tablet pc. It rocks! Its sorta like word but better

[Wayne Luke]

I just don't understand what it has better that WordPad doesn't give me

Handwriting recognition and multiple device support

[Joe Gronlund]

Has anyone here been privy to the MS beta team or checked out copies of the new Office 2003 suite?

I've been poking around with it, and I am not sure if even as a small business user, I will ever find a viable use for Infopath or OneNote.

What are your thoughts? Are these programs at all useful?

havnt tried it yet, i will tonight, i have access to all beta;s, RC and RTM releases but focus on Operating Systems and are asked for bug feedback for OS's and beta ver4 and ver 5 Liveupdates and Service Packs only ..

Working on SP1 for Server 2003 right now

One thing i was told is that outlook will always want to cache from an exchange server which will be a real pain in the A$$

Heres a Printscreen of the installation screen

[TalkMilitary]

Just got my package from Microsoft today. Will have a look, sounds interesting.
Glenn

[Joe Gronlund]

Couple more screenshots, 1GB Max install not including any extras

[dynamite]

I have been using the beta version of Office 2003 for a couple of months now. I have to say that I am pretty impressed. Outlook has a couple of very nice features

[Surrix]

Only think I didn't like about Outloke is that I don't like the inbox panel right next to the preview panel. Is there a way I can revert that to how it was orginally?