CNET’s Elsa Wenzel reviews “Microsoft Office Standard 2007” – on an Apple MacBook Pro:
The good: Previously hard-to-find features now easier to explore; Word embraces basic desktop publishing tools; Excel formulas are easier to reference; PowerPoint presentations are more attractive; Outlook improves task and time management; improved integration throughout the applications; smaller application and file sizes; new file formats are easier to salvage if corrupted; document security is more straightforward.
The bad: Drastic design changes demand a steep learning curve if you’re upgrading; new interface isn’t always intuitive; contextual tabs and style galleries can be distracting; users of Office 2000 through 2003 must install converters to open Office 2007 files; no easy way to save work to the Web.
The bottom line: Overall, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade if you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations to share with others, and Outlook is better than ever, but you can stick to your current software if you don’t feel that it lacks anything.
Full video and text review here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sohrab” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: Microsoft Office 2007 minimally requires Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later with 256 MB RM or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later with 256MB RAM.
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Thank you, CNET, for not letting Ina Fried review it. I don’t think I can take any more of him/her/it!
Elsa, Elsa…tsk, tsk…want me to kick Robert’s ass for ya? Vamos…si!
We don’t need him editing your work.
Cool… it’s nice to see this stuff works on the MBP. I’m going to do a Vista install on mine, and it’s nice to see someone else has their computer up and running this stuff.
Awesome.
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17″ MBP Core 2 Duo G
(not the N version)
Dear Boeing777
I guess you are old enough to reach the keys so I will allow the odd multisyllabic word in my reply to your posts…
“A huge Microsoft Vista Banner on your top front page”
“And where do you think circuit city gets the money to advertise a Microsoft product?”
… and your point is?
Do you think it might have been an ad matey? You know I think it might have been. And one that was presumably placed by an automatic ad-placement engine such as google ads…
Its a bugger isn’t it. Once you press that enter button you can’t take your words back. Still when you feel really really stupid you could always change your name. Have a chat to Zune Tang about that…
ps: Unless of course you are really Zune Tang in disguise? I thought I recognised the style…
Hey does it have parental controls? I heard that Bill Gates was on Oprah describing some really neat microsoft innovation stuff that had never been done in an operating system before – parental control.
apparently he was very excited by it. more excited that he was about that other big innovative squirting thing they do.
oh i know what you are thinking. but if bill says it is new and innovative and never been in an operating system before, it can’t be like the parental control thing that Apple introduced way back when… Perhaps it is, but it has a nice brown background or something.
I remember advertisements on MDN for stuff like Widows PCs and Windows software etc, but upon hitting the link you would be taken to an Apple advertisement.
Can not remember this exactly, but i am sure dull was one of the ads, can anyone remember this ploy.
Thankfully here in Australia most of the links tend to be local.
Guys Made a forum for Mac conversation if cool
easier for large chats. http://www.MacSnacs.com
Will not be advertised on Macnn etc or mac sites.
MDN hope this is OK can link to this if wish I can put Ads for
MDN banners.
Ta
AB
“Translation: Adobe Creative Suite CS2 and Web Bundle are worthy upgrades if you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations to share with others because frankly InDesign, Dreamweaver, and Flash will make better docs and since you have to learn a new interface to use Office 2007 you might as well use some real tools.”
? Sorry Tommy Boy, but most mangers need “real tools” like Excell that offer spread sheets, statistical and analytical tools more than they need “sleeker looking documents”. And heaven forbid you actually need to make that presentation on another company’s computer – you will find out haw useful power point is.