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NEW YORK -- It's a new day.

So says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who began Thursday by ringing the opening bell at NASDAQ and later fully unveiled the new features of the revamped Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Share Point Service and Microsoft Windows, otherwise now known as Windows Vista.

In addition to business and professional "Pro" versions, there are enterprise versions of all four programs that have new capabilities for content management, security, and business development. Microsoft Windows Vista is intended primarily to increase productivity, and Ballmer stressed that Office is "dramatically updated."

Upon receiving feedback from current business users, Ballmer realized that users in general may only know 20 to 30 percent of Windows' capabilities. Even when reviewing the revamped Excel in Office 2007, Bill Gates himself thought some of its features were new, when in fact chagrined Microsoft software developers

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