Microsoft Office Standard 2007 FULL VERSION
- Software suite offers the core Microsoft Office applications, but significantly updated for faster, better results
- Includes the 2007 versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Create high-quality documents and presentations, build powerful spreadsheets, and manage your e-mail messages, calendar, and contacts
- Offers improved menus and tools; enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities; new time and communication management tools; and more reliability and security
- Features the Ribbon, a new device that presents commands organized into a set of tabs, instead of traditional menus and toolbars
Microsoft Office Standard 2007 has the key tools and features that users have wanted, to make their computing experience easier. With its improved menus and toolbars, enhanced graphics and formatting, time and e-mail management tools & enhanced security, you’ll be so impressed that you’ll wonder how you got along without it. Office 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable to get things done. New calendar views and appointment tools help you organize your time and communications Simple si
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Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
Does Bill Gates?s retirement consign Microsoft to the corporate retirement home as well? Mary Jo Foley doesn?t think so. Her 25 years of Microsoft-watching provides a unique vantage point from which to speculate on how Microsoft might write its next chapter. Identifying signposts and interpreting clues she knows well, Foley offers a thought-provoking view of the software giant?s post-Gates future. Don?t be surprised to be surprised.
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Review by Mark for Microsoft Office Standard 2007 FULL VERSION
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Microsoft’s Office Standard 2007 is the version that includes the programs most people will be looking for in an office suite: Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook. While Microsoft did make some improvements, many changes have users frustrated and mad.
Pros
+ Standard version includes the 4 programs you actually want!
+ Like most new MS suites, allows for easier transfer between machines
+ Allows you to use on your home desktop AND your laptop!! Huge plus!!
+ New open document format based on xml – good for techies
+ Alternatively, you can still use the doc format you know and love
+ Excel now supports larger documents with more fields!
+ Cool new Powerpoint extras
+ Once you do overcome the learning curve, design has some plusse
+ Preloaded with Vista OEM computers, so install is MUCH faster than old version
Cons
– A list price of $400 means many will forgo Outlook and buy Home & Student suite for MUCH LESS
– The ribbon puts things in WEIRD places
– Microsoft disabled classic menus so you can’t find stuff … ARGH!!!
– Startup times seem a little slower … why????
– Strangely slow performance with Word
The general hatred for the ribbon is well known. Microsoft Word and Excel have drawn the most heat. It took everybody years to learn those nested menus and hard to find functions. Now they are all moved!!!!
Actually, the ribbon wouldn’t be so bad if you could have your regular old classic menus above it. Once you learn the ribbon, there’s some logic to the way things have been relocated. Still, this was a huge blunder and I wonder if MS will back track on that.
This guy also includes Outlook, which is a MUST for me since I have to use Outlook on my work PC. I tried using the exported files in the new vista calendar apps, and none of them really worked that well. The professional Microsoft Office Professional 2007 FULL VERSION and ultimate Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 FULL VERSION [DVD] suite versions also include outlook.
Yet why the list price of $400? The Home and Student Office 2007 suite Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is $150 and includes everything here except for Outlook. Is Outlook worth $250 now? To be fair, there are cheaper upgrade versions. Still, I may be switching to a new email / calendar / productivity program all-together.
The new XML doc format is Microsoft’s way of getting away from the proprietary .doc format. This will aggravate some people too, but you can just save everything in the 2003 format. I like the new format and I think it will catch on with time.
Despite the short comings, once you get past the learning curve the programs themselves are improved.
Enjoy!!!
Review by Graham for Microsoft Office Standard 2007 FULL VERSION
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The product requires activation, which includes sending machine identification information to Microsoft.
The good news is that the Office Standard license allows installation on both a desktop system and a laptop. It also allows you to transfer the license to new systems, over time.
From the license: “Before you use the software under a license, you must assign that license to one device. … You may install another copy on a portable device for use by the single primary user of the licensed device. … You may reassign the license to a different device any number of times, but not more than one time every 90 days.”
Review by Sandra for Microsoft Office Standard 2007 FULL VERSION
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I would like to know which genius came up with this little gem. This must be the worst “update” of a software in history.
As I was forced to buy a new computer, I was “blessed” with this malady of a software.
Despite the appealing first impression – the new Office presents itself with a modern and colorful layout, the debilitating flaws become all too quickly obvious once one starts to work with it.
The new feature, the Ribbon, is one of those things that look good only on paper. (like those state-of-the-art kitchen which are designed by very smart men, designers, engineers… but alas no cooks…) If you, like me, are one of those frequent users who work with the software on a daily basis, are very familiar with all its features and value the option of customizing your settings and toolbars in order to streamline (=timesaving) your individual processes, you are in for a major disappointment. The Ribbon is static – no customizing. Microsoft allegedly surveyed thousands of users and put the most popular features in so-called groups on this Ribbon. Great, if you are one of those surveyed users – a nightmare, if you were taking full advantage of individualizing (=streamlining) features. It is sort of like having a closet full of nice clothes, and then a survey shows that “gray goes with everything” and we are all stuck with the same gray clothes.
Instead of doing my work, I spent hours searching for features that are now hidden, moved, or simply do not exist anymore. I have been cursing at my screen, for hours. And I am getting more and more irritated as I am looking at my work which wants to be done.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am all for innovation, but not for innovation’s sake. And I don’t mind at all learning new things, if they prove to, in fact, improve things. And nope, there was not one “new thing” that made me say “ah, now that’s a great improvement.”
Sorry, Microsoft, but simply moving things around, throwing features out and making everything more uniform (=static) does not count as innovation in my book.
Review by Threefolddado for Microsoft Office Standard 2007 FULL VERSION
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It appears what happened was someone sitting around the old Microsoft Offices said “Hey, I got a great idea! Let’s make Office look really pretty! We may have to take away some of the functionality, but hey, it will look great!” My problem is I need tools such as a workhorse spreadsheet program, a powerful word processor, a flexible database, and stunning presentation program to successfully complete my job. Upon purchasing Office 2007, I was expecting expanded features and functions to assist me in doing so, just like every update had previously provided me. Instead I found myself with a redesigned interface (which takes time to learn) and an actual reduction of features from Office 2003 (which Microsoft freely admits occurred, because they couldn’t fit a few of the features into the new interface). So what you are in fact spending your hard earned money on is a group of programs designed to look really good (with neato 3D graphics, wow!), but at the expense of taking away your tools rather than expanding them.
Waste of money? Um, yeah.
I recommend waiting until Microsoft finally comes to the realization that how the software looks is truly the least of my concerns because I have work to do.
Review by dc3592346 for Microsoft Office Standard 2007 FULL VERSION
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In Office 2007, Microsoft has apparently decided that the idea of menus is outdated, so they’ve eliminated them and replaced them with the “ribbon”. While at first this seems easier to use, it will require you to relearn how to do everything in Office.
Want to insert a cross reference in Word? Hmm, well, I used to do that using the menus, now I have to hunt through all the annoying ribbon items to see if I can figure out where they’ve moved it. Plus, unlike the menus, you have no ability to determine what the shortcut key is.
Maybe I can search for it in the help system. Searching for “insert cross reference” returns no useful hits. (Although it does seem to be quite good at finding information about templates which I never use). How is it that they can make help so useless??
Plus, if you don’t like the ribbon, there’s no way of configuring it to use menus instead. You’re stuck with it.
I commend Microsoft for attempting to increase usability, but this new feature certainly doesn’t make me any more productive. It seems to be change for the sake of change.
If you’re thinking of upgrading or buying this new, keep in mind that you’ll essentially have to relearn how to use each application. Things that you’ve known how to do for years will now be useless.
Stay with an earlier version if you can.
Review by Maxim Masiutin for Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
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Mary Jo Foley has made a valuable contribution to investors and stock analysts. This books makes it easier to understand Microsoft’s background, which kinds of business models does Microsoft employ to make money, and the future evolution of these models. This book is helpful if you are going to estimate future cash flows and calculate the intrinsic value of the company. Whichever tools do you have to your disposition as an analyst, this one is a worthy addition.
The author has done great job summarizing miscellaneous (and sporadic) sources of information like various speeches, blogs, and articles. She has also used Microsoft’s SEC filings like annual and quarterly reports.
First, she introduces the reader to terms used by Microsoft, e.g. what is “eXperience”, “S+S”, “Office Live” and so on. Rather than copying vague definitions from the website, she really makes the reader to understand what lies behind these terms in a neutral manner.
Then, she focuses on key people of Microsoft, near-term products of Microsoft, and then devotes the most of the book to the business models. She is not a Microsoft insider and didn’t have support from Microsoft key people while writing this book, thus she uses neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic voice: she is quite neutral. The fact that she is not an insider is also good because she doesn’t have to do any promises that she have to keep.
There is a useful “annotated reading list”, which list blogs which you might want to read to keep in touch with Microsoft. This section also lists some books, but they are quite old and are interesting only in historical perspective.
The only disadvantage of this book is that is somewhat small: more analyses and figures would have been useful for better understanding of the business models of Microsoft.
Review by B. Ford for Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
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After reading Microsoft 2.0, here are my thoughts:
If you are a geek that reads Slashdot, Digg, and other technology news sites, it is most likely that this book is going to bore you to death. It’s filled with information you most likely already know. I usually enjoy reading tech-related books, but this was the first time I was completely bored reading. I don’t blame the author, she could only work with so much.
This book seems targeted at people that don’t keep up with the tech industry.
Also, the author lacks the knowledge of Microsoft’s gaming division and their XBox Live efforts. One could tell from reading her thoughts on XBox Live that she truly didn’t understand the service. However, Microsoft is a big company, and it will be difficult for a person to be knowledgeable in all areas.
Review by JPKelly for Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
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First, if any analyst used this book as a reference I’d be afraid, very afraid. The statement about Microsoft buying Yahoo in the first chapter was very annoying since it didn’t happen.
I read a lot of tech specific content and, as one reviewer mentioned, perhaps that is why I did not like the book. Personally, I was hoping for a true look at Microsoft within the context of current technological and cultural shifts. This book reads more like the diary of a girl with a crush on the high school quarterback. Microsoft has before it one of the most difficult challenges any firm can face. History has shown for a firm to move from dominating one paradigm (client/server in this case) to another (cloud – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) is incredibly difficult. Microsoft actually has a real chance of pulling it off rather successfully, but that would actually require a PLAN or at least some vain attempt to offer suggestions for the future of the lumbering giant rather than biting on lame marketing attempts to milk their current products with terms like S+S.
Microsoft needs to re-architect their entire enterprise – both what and how they sell. How about leveraging Android and putting a MSFT face on it – the firm has always been better at marketing than technology anyway. Windows Mobile is horribly irrelevant. They should have bought Sun before Oracle did – that would have been a cool MSFT 2.0 – they desperately need to embrace open source, a play out of IBM’s book.
For a Microsoft 2.0 to be successful MSFT needs to look out – perhaps that’s my biggest problem with this book, all it does is look in.
“The Microsoft Culture of Today and Tomorrow” or something like that would have been legit. “Microsoft 2.0” not so much.
Review by Thomas Duff for Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
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This is a book I’ve been looking forward to for some time… Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era by Mary Jo Foley. Given her long track record in covering Microsoft in tech media, I was interested to know how she perceived the behemoth as they come to a critical juncture in their leadership. I personally think she did a very good job in touching on and analyzing all the different facets that make up Microsoft’s efforts to stay relevant. Only a minor deduction for an assumption she had to make late in the game that didn’t play out as many expected… 🙂
Contents:
Forward – The Microsoft 2.0 World (According to Mini-Microsoft)
Acknowledgments
Introduction – Microsoft 2.0 – Welcome to the New (Post-Gatesian) Microsoft
Microsoft 1.0 – It Was All about Bill
Microsoft 2.0 – The Buzzwords
Microsoft 2.0 – The People
Microsoft 2.0 – Products on the Near-Term Radar Screen
Microsoft 2.0 – Big-Bet Products
Microsoft 2.0 – Tried and True Business Models
Microsoft 2.0 – Untried but Unavoidable Business Models
Conclusion – On to Microsoft 3.0
Memos, Letters, and E-mails
Annotated Reading List
Index
When you’re trying to analyze a company as large as Microsoft *as it is still moving*, it’s a difficult chore to commit words to page without having those same words become irrelevant (or even wrong) before the book sees the light of day. Many of the previous books on Microsoft try to tell the story of some past event, and at least have the ability to know that the story isn’t going to change much. Foley had to look at the not-so-distant past, mix in the ever-changing present, and try to figure out what it all means for Microsoft once Bill Gates steps away from the company on July 1st, 2008. Given that nearly impossible task in book form, I think she accomplished what she set out to do. She’s realistic in where Microsoft has succeeded and failed, without portraying an overwhelming bias as a fan-boy or hater of the company. Although the company would not grant her access to officials for this book, she has plenty of other sources to reveal little-known projects, plans, and experiments designed to keep Microsoft from constant reliance on the cash cows of Windows and Office. But it’s painfully clear that Microsoft still continues (and will for the foreseeable future) to rely heavily on those two products to keep the ledger sheet green and to allow them to sink/waste vast amounts of money on other projects that still haven’t panned out over time (like IPTV). After reading this book, you realize that Microsoft isn’t dead, isn’t irrelevant, and isn’t going to go away overnight. However, they are at a critical point in their existence, where leadership, technology, and market forces are all combining to make the stakes higher than they’ve ever been.
To Foley’s credit, she doesn’t come out and “predict” Microsoft’s future. Far too many industry analysts attempt to do that on a daily basis, and continually fail. What she does do is lay out the challenges and offer some insight as to where they *might* go given their track record and past history. That’s incredibly useful, and also allows you to go back a couple years later to see how those forces actually played out. The only nit I had about the book surrounds the Microsoft-Yahoo proposed merger. Obviously, that event happened *very* late in the writing of the manuscript. An event of that magnitude could not be ignored without the book looking dated before it was even printed. However, the outcome of that event seemed to have different treatments as the book went along. Earlier in the book, she apparently made the decision to assume the merger would transpire and wrote as if it had. Later on, it was more of an “if the proposed merger occurs” stance. I understand she had to do something with it… It just so happens that it didn’t play out as most everyone expected it to. It still doesn’t negate or lessen the value of all her other insights and analysis.
You can quibble over whether she’s right or wrong as much as you’d like. That’s life in the tech world, as we all have our own “expert” opinions on how technology will absolutely play out. What I don’t think you can argue over is whether she did her homework on this book and delivered on what she set out to do. She did… Nice job.
Review by Stephen Forte for Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
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Do you work at Microsoft, at one of their partners, or competitors? Own their stock? Then this book is for you. Most people count Microsoft out in the age of Google and the Web, but not Mary Jo Foley. She writes an honest, fair, and balanced book on where Microsoft is headed based on their current trajectory and her knowledge from covering the company for 20 years. Mary Jo takes you on a tour of who the new players are in the post Bill era (and there are some surprises) as well as gives detail on the current product line and what they mean in the “Web 2.0” era. Then she focuses her attention on products and services under development and how they fit into the new era. She has done a great job peering into the future with her predictions on future directions and business models for Microsoft.
This is a great read and an important book for anyone who deals with Microsoft, friend of foe. (Tip, read the footnotes, there are great nuggets of information in them!)