Office pro plus 2007 £51.00, Vista Ultimate £66.51 .......and more

dirtydogmitchell

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Loads of Cheap Software on offer, no proof needed that you are a student all you do is give a secondary school and your in!
By purchasing the software from Rm you alsoearn cash back for your childrens School

http://www.rm.com/thebasement/

shareef

Wasnt microsoft selling it directly themselves for £30? (office)

Dave_The_Rave_2

Great price, BUT I had Office 2007, and it is a terrible upgrade / replacement for Office 2003 ! (A bit like Vista replacing XP, but that's another story !).

First off, 2007 has ditched DOC & XLS extensions, although you can set it to revert back to these. However it always says 'compatibility mode in the application window, which is a little annoying.

Second, the new Ribbon menu structure is a NAFF idea, and a real pain in the butt (in this politically correct world, am I allowed to say butt ? :rotfl: )

Thirdly, it is significantly slower than 2003, so unless you have a high powered machine, don't waste your money.

Needless to say, I sold mine on eBay to some unsuspecting soul ! (I did feel guilty....well a little !)

Apart from that, it's fine

gjchester

Dave_The_Rave wrote: »

First off, 2007 has ditched DOC & XLS extensions, although you can set it to revert back to these. However it always says 'compatibility mode in the application window, which is a little annoying.

So ditching the proprietry closed DOC/XLS format and moving to a open XML format is a bad thing? It's not, now documents are more likely to be readable with the correct formatting in any comparable application (ie open office) rather than .doc where occasionally they get the formatting wrecked opening in them in any other package

Dave_The_Rave wrote: »

Second, the new Ribbon menu structure is a NAFF idea, and a real pain in the butt (in this politically correct world, am I allowed to say butt ? :rotfl: )

Your opinion, I personally found it hard to get used to, but better once you get used to it. it's more obvious but there was some head scratching at first.

Dave_The_Rave wrote: »

Thirdly, it is significantly slower than 2003, so unless you have a high powered machine, don't waste your money.

Not noticed any real difference other than it is a lot slower if you don't have all your drives connected on opening or saving a file, but that's a known issue, if you have drives online it's faster then the old version.

gjchester

dirtydogmitchell wrote: »

Loads of Cheap Software on offer, no proof needed that you are a student all you do is give a secondary school and your in!

Technically by not being a student you forfeit the licence so you may as well use a p2p copy. If MS find out they will ask you to pay the difference between the cost you paid and the full retail cost or may take you to court as a pirate. You've broken the licence so have no right to use the software.

Will it happen? probably not, but best to understand the implications before you buy this.

jmarko

Open Office is free. You can save things in .doc format. It looks just like the full price brands. It works on all operating systems and it works very well too!

https://www.openoffice.org

:money:

jmarko

withabix

gjchester wrote: »

Technically by not being a student you forfeit the licence so you may as well use a p2p copy. If MS find out they will ask you to pay the difference between the cost you paid and the full retail cost or may take you to court as a pirate. You've broken the licence so have no right to use the software.

Will it happen? probably not, but best to understand the implications before you buy this.

You only have to have a child at school to satisfy the licence requirements.

robt_2

http://www.theultimatesteal.co.uk/

Buy it from Microsoft for less - £38.95.

spakkker

Just deleted it from my pc 10 minutes ago after seeing this thread. Been meaning to get rid of it for a while. No, I don't use vista either. Ever heard the adage - if it ain't broke- .... ... .. ?

scoobie

Dave_The_Rave wrote: »

Thirdly, it is significantly slower than 2003, so unless you have a high powered machine, don't waste your money.

Needless to say, I sold mine on eBay to some unsuspecting soul ! (I did feel guilty....well a little !)

Apart from that, it's fine

The general consensus on the web is the new features in outlook, onenote etc are significantly better than Office 2003.
Service Pack 1 for office 2007 has been released in December - free to download. Reports say this speeds Office up
The ribbon does take some getting used to, but I do think its better as its context sensitive (ie offers features relevant to what you are doing)

Horlock

My biggest gripe with office is powerpoint, which is totally not backwards compatible, even more frustratingly the powerpoint viewer that ships with office 2007 is not compatible with office 2007, and therefore when you save for powerpoint viewer it downgrades the save to old version, sounds fine until all your animations are totally messed up - looks really good when trying to deliver a professional presentation NOT
Having said that it may have been fixed in service pack 1 - I didn't know it had been released so will have to check that I have it installed now.

Would obviously second the link to ultimatesteal far better value for money, if you are a genuine academic.