Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Upgrade
February 18, 2010 | Posted by vvt9 
- Analyze and manage business information using Access databases
- Exchange data with other systems using enhanced XML technology
- Control information sharing rules with enhanced IRM technology
- Easy-to-use wizards to create e-mail newsletters and printed marketing materials
- More than 20 preformatted business reports
Product Description
Marketing Information: Office Professional Edition 2003 can help you and your organization communicate information with immediacy and impact. New, yet familiar programs help you build connections between people, information, and business processes.
Product Information
Software Sub Type: Office SuiteSoftware Name: Office 2003 Professional Edition – UpgradeFeatures & Benefits: Improve business processes: Support for industry-standard Extensible … More >>
Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Upgrade
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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.
Rating: 1 / 5
After being a hardcore Microsoft user for years and years, I’ve recently discovered a whole new world through the GNU/Linux platform. Windows users — go to http://www.openoffice.org. Download the FREE software, which is fully compatible with Microsoft formats, and if this doesn’t do the job, then you can shell out $300+ for the traditional product.
Rating: 1 / 5
This whole thing is pure waste of money.
Not just because OpenOffice is free and compatible as mentioned (though there’s always the point of liking the look and feel of an application, of course) but it has been reported to be awfully buggy, ressource-consuming and full of errors even in pre-release state. I do have the feeling that you guys from the US are pretty much misinformed (how about reading magazines?!). Here in Europe hardly anybody complaines having spent just a few hundred bucks and later recognizes that it was garbage in the package.
The most sensitive disadvantage of all MS products is their permanent attempt to infiltrate your business in a certain way, herewith controlling you – just with a laughing face to “steal” the money right out of your pocket.
The only thing you do whenever anybody supports MS products is to increase their influence and therewith prevent others to provide really productive tools – at a much lower cost, in most cases.
With the new version, MS again tries to get into deep structures by setting up software environments that limit possibilities to predefined areas. The user is not free to decide independently. And this exactly is what MS does since its foundation. Things won’t work which have worked before, structures and interfaces have changed so no one keeps the overview (which, of course, is a good reason for the next upgrade where the changes of the changes of the changes are called user input), and so on. Especially MS office seems to be an excellent platform to test future strategies at the cost of users. This, in a way, happens quite anonymously because nobody will encounter all bugs at the same time.
Microsoft does product testing while at the same time getting paid for it. That’s what I call CLEVER WORK!
Rating: 1 / 5
In mid-August I purchased a new 3-Gig P4 mid-range Compaq laptop with Windows XP Pro, a trial version of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Works pre-installed. Using the documentation provided on Amazon.com I purchased the upgrade version of Microsoft Office 2003 Pro on amazon.com. Here it is the mid-November and I’m still trying to get the trial version to “covert” to the upgrade version I purchased. No documentation seems to exist, online or otherwise, and I dread the possibility of spending hours on hold to Microsoft.
Rating: 1 / 5
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.
Rating: 2 / 5