bit-tech Shopping: Microsoft Office 2007 Standard

• E-mail/Contact Manager
• Presentation
• Spreadsheet
• Word Processor

• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Rating: 10

Time with product: 30 Days

Strengths: This is the well-known and widely used MS Office software that preforms very well.

Weaknesses: None found.

Summary: I purchased this software primarily for MS Word to create documents and for MS Outlook for email. I am running it with MS Vista and it works perfectly for my purposes.

Rating: 6

Time with product: 30 Days

Strengths: The installation was very easy and all of the programs work well.

Weaknesses: Have to learn where everything is as the menus are different.

Summary: I have one reservation that I have not yet explored. I have not tried to update and have no indication if Microsoft will recognize the program as legitimate. I do hope so since there was no activation required on installation and no key to gain access was required even though one was included with the disk.

Rating: 6

Time with product: 6 Weeks

Strengths: More Powerpoint features for slicker products, some desktop publishing tools in Word, better Excel formula references

Weaknesses: Time needed to adjust to new interfaces (if you used previous version)

Summary: Overall this is a very good software product, with added features that make it better than the previous version. However, changes are not revolutionary enough to warrant a 'must upgrade' recommendation. New interfaces take a little time to get used to as you unlearn old habits. For users new to MS Office, you'll find this to be a powerful and feature-laden suite of productivity software.

Rating: 4

Time with product: 90 Days

Strengths: can save as PDF

Weaknesses: system hog; slow

Summary: There's not alot of reasons to upgrade to this version. The only thing I like is the ability to save as PDF document. Many of the features that I am accustomed to in the previous is hidden in this version. It's time-consuming to find the same functions that I always use in the 2003 version but have a difficult time finding in this 2007 version. It is also very slow to open and edit. Resource hog. I wouldn't upgrade to this if I had a choice.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 3 Days

Strengths: Easy to install and use, all software componets work well toghether.

Weaknesses: None

Summary: This software version comes with Word, Excel, Power point and outlook, which are the most popular. This should satisfy most users. Overall a nice updrade, it is easy to install and use, very intuitive.