Are you using Office 2007?

OverlandLandy

I have now dumped MS and I'm using openoffice.
Its pretty darn good - and its FOC!

AMO

30111987 wrote:

also worth noting is Microsoft dropped Outlook from the Home/Student version. You now need Small Business, Professional or Enterprise to get outlook. Or you may be able to buy it seperatly.
I suppose Microsoft thinks the new Windows Mail for Vista is good enough for home users. That or they are secretly admitting Thunderbird from Mozilla is better and free.

They did this to stop companies feel tempted to buy Home Edition and also to accommodate pricing. Home Edition can be installed on 3 home PCs, but Microsoft do not want to extend this to Outlook. Even if you buy both, because of the drastic reductions on cost for Word/Excel, its actually affordable - even more so if you have 3 PCs.

Also, the other reason is that in Windows Vista, Windows Mail has been introduced. I have not seen it, but as I understand it, it removes the need for Outlook for the home user.

AMO

AMO

Marty999 wrote:

Most of the PC users in my company are running Office 2000 and 2003 and we are happy with those, but we have the opportunity to upgrade to Office 2007 as we have just bought a number of additional licenses.

I'd quite like to install Excel 2007 as I had a file the other day containing more rows than Excel 2003 can handle, but I am a bit wary of upgrading just for the sake of it especially as it's so new.

I know it has a totally different appearance but the magazine review I read sounds good, so I wondered if anybody has any experience of using Office 2007 as yet, and if you have any comments or advice please?

It depends on how much the upgrade will cost you. For new licences, if it costs the same for 2003 and 2007, go for 2007. If you have to pay for upgrading existing 2003 licences it depends on how many existing licences vs how many new licences.

If you can have new licences in 2007 and existing licences in 2003, provided you don't mind that from an administration perspective, I'd go for this option if it costs too much to upgrade existing licences.

Overall, whatever you do, try not to buy old software when you can buy new. Otherwise you'll get into a state where in a couple of years, you'd wish you didn't make that decision. It's hard enough keeping up with software without intensionally holding back. It's costly as well if you select 2003 for new licences and pay the upgrade cost in a few months as well.

From what I've heard 2007 is pretty good.

AMO

wolfman

digp wrote:

Office 2007 is bloatware.

Well done. Great post.

superscaper

wolfman wrote:

Well done. Great post.

Exactly it was a well written, well reasoned argument with plenty of evidence and citations given to back up the factual statement (not even claimed to be just opinion).