[plug] Office 2003 review

[Garry]

Maybe the press isn't as tame as Bill and Steve would like....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44570-2003Oct18.html

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But Word, Excel and PowerPoint, the other core Office tools, have barely
changed. If it weren't for a new, garish blue theme, few home users
could tell the 2003 editions from their predecessors. (That gaudy window
dressing, incidentally, can be turned off only in Windows XP's Displays
control panel, at the cost of switching the entire XP desktop to the
old, plain-gray look; Windows 2000 escapes this aesthetic offense.)

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 Every time Microsoft puts a bit of the Web into one of its
applications, it seems to leave a big hole open for virus writers.
Unlike Corel's WordPerfect or the free OpenOffice, Word still can't save
a document in the popular, widely compatible Portable Document Format
(PDF).

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If e-mail rules your world, Outlook 2003 offers tough competition for
pretty much every other program around (if you trust Microsoft when it
says it has fixed the vulnerabilities that allowed so many viruses to
spread via Outlook). But the rest of Office 2003 is a yawner. Most
people at home can comfortably sleep right through this upgrade cycle.

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8^)==

Garry

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"Rich" is when your software costs less than your pay cheque...

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