OneNote 2003 was only sold as a separate product - much as Visio or Project are currently. It doesn't require the Office suite, though features like "Create an Outlook Task" obviously won't work if you don't have Outlook 2003. OneNote 2007 is included in two of the suites: Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition and Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate.

Office Groove 2007 is a collaboration software program that allows teams to share information and work together on project activities-from simple document collaboration to custom solutions integrated with business processes. Teams using Office Groove 2007 work inside collaborative workspaces, which put all team members, tools, and information in one place.

From an Office Groove 2007 workspace Files tool or SharePoint Files tool, you can initiate a co-review session of a PowerPoint presentation. This allows you and your workspace members to view a presentation together in real time with just one click, perhaps in conjunction with a team meeting. One of the core design goals of Office Groove 2007 is to ship the product with the highest degree of quality and user satisfaction of any Groove release.

XML, or extensible markup language, is an open, industry-standard language for organizing and storing data. Having data in XML means that the information is transportable and can be easily shared and reused. Office Word 2007 supports XML in many ways. The default file format for Word is the Word XML Format, which is a compact, robust file format based on XML.

OneNote is an application for free-form note taking on your computer. It accepts typed or handwritten (if you have a digitizer) input as well as things you copy/paste from other applications. It also supports audio recordings and does some advanced searching across the notes to make it easy for you to find notes you've composed.

Office Professional Plus 2007 when combined with the new Office SharePoint Server 2007 delivers an expanded set of capabilities that make it easier to deliver better results faster across your organization. Key capabilities include: Document management capabilities that streamline the process of creating, reviewing, and publishing content. Office Excel 2007 spreadsheet publishing capabilities that enable viewing Excel 2007 spreadsheets using a Web browser.

When combined with Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007 allows users to easily share, reuse, and connect content from multiple PowerPoint presentations using PowerPoint Slide Libraries. Office SharePoint Server 2007 also provides powerful out-of-the-box functionality for creating and managing presentation review and approval workflows, and other types of workflows that can be defined.

No, at this time there is no exposed object model. There will be quite a lot more exposed in the next version of OneNote.

Office Groove 2007 allows workers to share any Microsoft Office document within a workspace using the Groove Files tool, SharePoint Files tool or other tools that support file attachments such as the Discussion tool, Meetings tool, and Forms tool. No. Office Groove 2007 supports documents created in the 2007 Microsoft Office release and prior versions, as well as documents created with other software applications.

The Microsoft Office system provides customers with a set of programs that they can choose from to best address their business needs. Office PowerPoint 2007 is the interface that enables individuals, teams, and organizations to create and share dynamic presentations in less time than ever before.

XML is an open, industry-standard language for organizing and storing data. Having data in XML means that the information is transportable and can be easily shared and reused. The information contained on this Web site relates to pre-release software products, and may be substantially modified before the commercial release.

By increasing both team and individual productivity, Office Groove 2007 helps teams complete projects on time and within budget. Because teams using Office Groove 2007 don’t need to meet or hold teleconferences as often, Groove can also help reduce travel and phone costs. Office Groove 2007 can help team members improve the quality of their work because they spend less time coordinating with each other and more time on their own contributions.

Office Groove 2007 will support the following languages when it is released to market: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Portuguese-European, Romanian, Russian, Serbian-Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

The Groove Files tool and SharePoint Files tool allow team members to save their changes to a document as a new version, if desired. Teams wanting strict version control can publish documents from the SharePoint Files tool in Office Groove 2007 to a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3.0) document library, where version control can be implemented.

Office Groove 2007 features a new tool called Groove InfoPath Forms that allows project teams to import InfoPath forms solutions into a Groove 2007 workspace for the purpose of collecting and aggregating data. The resulting Office InfoPath 2007 XML documents can be exported from the Office Groove 2007 workspace or integrated directly with an enterprise system.

Microsoft Outlook 2007 and/or 2003 are packed with many new features as well as a new look and feel. The improvements are designed to allow most people to intuitively navigate through the program, minimizing the transitional pain of new software. If you are new to Outlook 2007 or 2003 and would like to familiarize yourself with it, you may follow the link below to the Exchange training page. This upgrade is at no cost to your department.

Office PowerPoint 2007 works with any XML-enabled database or server by providing support for Web services and database interoperability.

Office PowerPoint 2007 introduces a new file format that addresses a number of important issues. File sizes for documents stored in this new format are significantly smaller than earlier Microsoft Office file formats (.ppt). Because of the way that data is stored within the presentations, the recovery of corrupt or damaged files is much improved.

No, no native support for either in the current version. You can, of course, use third-party disk encryption or even OS-level encryption to encrypt the files on the disk.