Inside Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0

SharePoint Workflows

For nearly 20 years, desktop applications of the Microsoft Office applications—such as Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint—have grown in popularity to the point that they are now ubiquitous in business environments. These applications have built a reputation in the software industry as reliable tools for creating, editing, and reviewing the documents that are critical to running a business. The introduction of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 into the Microsoft Office 2003 System extended the capabilities of applications even further by enabling the creation, editing, and reviewing of documents across teams in a collaborative environment.

Though tools such as Office Word and ...