bit-tech Shopping: Microsoft Office 2007 Professional

• Databases
• E-mail/Contact Manager
• Presentation
• Project Management
• Publishing/Marketing
• Spreadsheet
• Word Processor

• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Rating: 8

Time with product: 2 Months

Strengths: Does a great job and is a quality product. It works great.

Weaknesses: I don't know why they had to change the menu and other bars.

Summary: It doesn't save it to the same type of file as the old Office suite did but you can do the old as "Save as." Once you save it to PDF, you can't edit it with office.

Rating: 10

Time with product: 2 Months

Strengths: Live up to the Microsoft Office expectations. Each program is compatible with the other programs in the suite. Academic edition is exactly like the retail version but less expensive.

Weaknesses: None that I can think of.

Summary: I bought this program to upgrade from MS Office 2000 and I had no trouble installing it. The new version reads the documents in the old version and gives you the option to save it in the old version or convert it to the new version. If you cannot get a project done in this program, it cannot be done.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 2 Months

Strengths: Easy to install

Weaknesses: Designed changed,so it was a bit more difficult to find some things.

Summary: I always like to try an upgrade to the lastest product and being that I am in school and found out that I had to learn this for one of my MIS classes that I will be taking in the Fall, I thought I would get a jump start ahead and start using it now to avoid an issues I have later. The design at first was a little hard to deal with, but I am slowly getting the hang of it.

Rating: 8

Time with product: 10 Days

Strengths: easy to use

Weaknesses: rather pricey

Summary: I recently bought a new laptop and needed to purchase a copy of Office for it so I decided to update to Office 2007. The new ribbon interface for commands took some getting used but once I did I like it much better than the older menu format.

Rating: 10

Time with product: 5 Days

Strengths: More interactive, prettier interface.

Weaknesses: Learning curve to switch from Office '03.

Summary: I am not a power-user of Office, but I'm fairly familiar with Excel and Word. The menus from Excel took some getting used to (such as finding the button for gridlines). I have heard that some of the best improvements were are in Excel. Word is enjoyable so far. Keep in mind that if you're a student then you save much by getting the academic version of Office.I have also heard that Vista does not offer much on top of XP, but that Office 2007 is worth the upgrade from 2003.