Dell Ships 2003 Microsoft Office System

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 21, 2003–Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) today announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office System suite across its notebooks, desktops and workstations to help provide productivity improvements for customers at home or in the office.

Customers can purchase Dell(tm) Latitude(tm) and Inspiron(tm) notebook computers, OptiPlex(tm) and Dimension(tm) desktop systems and Dell Precision(tm) workstations with Microsoft Office System. Dell, which began shipping the 2003 edition on Sept. 30, also sells the software suite separately for customers who want to upgrade their systems.

Among its new features, the Microsoft Office 2003 provides users with better e-mail management, spam filtering and virus protection on Outlook, and greater ease in creating and sharing Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

“Outlook 2003 has significant improvements for the mobile professional with seamless transitions from offline to wireless networking to docked computing. More and more of our customers are becoming `road warriors’ and will appreciate the speed and simplicity of these tools,” said Jim Totton, Dell vice president of Windows OS and applications.

“Dell and Microsoft deliver comprehensive technology designed to make it easy to build, manage and deploy powerful enterprise infrastructure and business products and services,” said Joe Eschbach, corporate vice president of the Information Worker Product Management Group at Microsoft Corp. “Dell is a strategic partner, and we’re pleased to see its commitment to helping customers use the power of the Microsoft Office System to be more productive and successful.”

For more information, please visit www.dell.com/microsoft.

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