Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Upgrade [OLD VERSION]

The Business Contact Manager in Outlook makes keeping track of your suppliers and customers easier than ever! Just register the contact as a business in Outlook, and all documentation created through Outlook is automatically attached to their business profile - basically creating a one stop data pool for each registered business client.

I use SQL, mySQL, and Access as data tools, and find the XML functionality in Access is great for moving data from one format to another. It's also very useful for creating data driven XML documents for use in front ends built with Flash MX.

While Word and Excel are pretty much the same, with a few added bells and whistles, the newer functionalities in Outlook and Access make my life easier and definitely pay for the upgrade in saved time.

Amazon offers the lowest price out there (beleive me when I tell I've looked around) on the upgrade. Add the availability of rebate offers through Amazon, and you really can't go wrong.

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another fine product by microsoft   December 17, 2003
 0 out of 3 found this review helpful

Since b4 i had office 97, getting office 2003 really did show me several big and useful changes and I like it.

Office suite is good but windows just sucks.


Still not worth the money when openoffice is free   November 28, 2003
 45 out of 93 found this review helpful

While the rest of the world--Asia, Europe, South America, you name it--is switching like gangbusters to OpenOffice, millions of people in the US are still just assuming that you have to fork out a few hundred bucks every couple years in order to just produce a decent document. Which of course Microsoft Office in any version does. It does decent documents and spreadsheets and presentations. Fine. But for pete's sake, you can do all that for free with OpenOffice.org and no one from Uncle Bill will ever come knockin' at the door wanting to know where your licenses are. Still using Microsoft Office is like leasing your phone for $30 a month from the phone company when you can buy one for cheaper.

Anyway, Microsoft Office 2003 has nice features but unless it can cure the common cold, there's no reason to be paying all that money for it. The latest release of OpenOffice.org 1.1 has even better compatibility with MS Office, it handles the new formats, it runs on Windows and UNIX, and it prints straight to PDF. So what is anyone doing paying for MS Office? Beats me.


Microsoft another great product!!   November 14, 2003
 15 out of 21 found this review helpful

If you heat junk-mail they way I do, it's worth it! The Junk E-Mail filters are great. The new Outlook look is the best and I love the Outlook Video 10sec e-mail add-on and the two page doc. in Word, I do like the changes in Word and Excel If you like to keep up-to-date and really into new features, buy it! if you don't like change, than have a nice day in your little world.

Thanks Microsoft for another great product!!


Use Open Office - It's Free!!!   November 12, 2003
 22 out of 68 found this review helpful

If you want an alternative to MS Office, that is also compatible with MS Office, use Open Office. You can find it under the Google search term Open Office. It's a free download, and just as good as Office 2003. You get a Word application, a spreadsheet application, and a PowerPoint application. All are compatible with Office 2003.