[THIN] Which version of Office??

Dudes (and Dudettes),

We are deploying a new MFXP farm on Windows 2003 and MFXP1.0/FR3-SP3 (just a
few servers) and are about to start installing apps. What is the general
consensus regarding Office version to deploy? We need Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, and Outlook (also Acrobat) and we were thinking Office XP, but a
recent desktop deployment revealed an issue with XP that makes me
re-consider. One of our local users accesses a network share with over 1000
files (please, don't get me started!! <g>) and when you browse in Excel, it
takes several minutes to display the file list to select a file to open.
This was replicated on Office 2003. However, this was resolved by
"downgrading" this user to Office 2000, which does not exhibit the long file
list enumeration time.

Any information, pros, and cons from the group regarding which version to
deploy will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!

Rob Slayden
24 Hour Fitness, Inc.

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