Nickname: SuspiciousInRockville

Review: Could Microsoft's delay in releasing 2007 Microsoft Office derive, in part, from the State of Massachusetts' adoption of document formats that are "more open" than Microsoft's supposedly open XML-based format?

Date reviewed: Feb 18, 2006 11:23 PM

Nickname: FreeOffice

Review: I'm sooo tired of Microsoft telling me what I need. Thanks Sun Microsystems for the flexibility of Star Office and collaborating with OpenOffice.org.

Date reviewed: Feb 17, 2006 4:42 PM

Nickname: MEZ

Review: As knowledge workers become more and more distributed (and a greater and greater percent of the workforce), the collaboration functionality will become more critical. I for one am eager to test these capabilities in the new Office as a means to reduce some of the complexity of managing projects across offices in three and sometimes four different cities.

Date reviewed: Feb 17, 2006 2:53 AM

Nickname: MS Lover

Review: What people miss about Office products is that they provide a complete solution in one package to perform any business task. Having Office XP Pro has helped me build my company from the ground up with little initial investment. Anything from marketing print, to managing projects, to creating databases was made really simple by the product suite. Sure, if you're a nuts and bolts programmer you're always going to find problems. But for business professionals (we're not all drones) it is very beneficial. I look forward to the 2007 version.

Date reviewed: Feb 17, 2006 1:34 AM

Nickname: RobS

Review: Most people don't use more than 1% of the features of Office. The only people looking forward to new versions of Office are mind-less, soul-less corporate drones whose only thrill in life is bragging about how many MHz they have on their computer or that they have installed the latest version of "XYZ" software. They install and upgrade constantly, but they never actually do anything useful with the software.

Date reviewed: Feb 17, 2006 12:49 AM

Nickname: MachSchnell

Review: Frans, what's your M$ employee number?

Date reviewed: Feb 16, 2006 9:55 PM

Nickname: wireguy

Review: I wish Microsoft would stop fishing for red herrings and focus on what they do best-- productivity applications and operating systems. While they continue to challenge any company that finds a successful niche in the market (i.e. Apple and iTunes; Google; eBay; etc), their core and most used applications continue to be pushed back and quality continues to suffer.

Date reviewed: Feb 16, 2006 9:03 PM

Nickname: FutureUser

Review: I wish we would upgrade to OpenOffice so we wouldn't have all these goofy bugs. Excel can't see beyond 1000 unique items in a column when using the Select from List feature. That makes it real easy to lose track of stuff.

Date reviewed: Feb 16, 2006 6:44 PM

Nickname: trilsys

Review: We've been using Open Office for 2 years now. It's stable, has every feature we could possibly want, and is as close to 100% Microsoft compatible as I can imagine. Not only that, but I converted some Office Word files the other day to OO format: Microsoft Word file 113k, OO file 13k. And OO uses an open standard that isn't going to be obsolete in 6 months. Oh, did I mention that OO is free? Actually, if you pay Sun $70, you get real physical manuals, plus 1 year of a real human being tech support. Let's see, Microsoft gives you ClipIt and a Web site. LOL.

Date reviewed: Feb 16, 2006 5:57 PM

Nickname: Frans

Review: I, for one, look forward to the new Office version despite all the gripes I have read throughout the years. It is still an excellent suite without which I wouldn't know what to do.

Date reviewed: Feb 16, 2006 9:14 AM