Microsoft Office 2003 - Reviews, Overviews, Issues

securitas writes "The first users of Microsoft's Office 2003 are weighing in and the response is mixed. The new Outlook has received a favorable response, but the mantra seems to be there's little reason to upgrade unless you absolutely need the new features. Meanwhile, Bill Gates dismissed the open source competition. One of the new features - self-destructing documents - seems to have caused some confusion, because 'Microsoft says the new feature is not designed to remove all traces of a file' and MS spokesman Mike Pryke-Smith says, 'The message will still be in various places', so emails will not cleanly self-destruct. A related issue is the permissions technology called Information Rights Management, which may shut out Mac users. PC World has a detailed review of Office 2003 which sums things up well."

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Microsoft Office 2003

[Sir Haxalot]

Why have cotton when you can have silk?

Re:Silk is made by worms

[Anonymous Coward]

NO! Actually its picked by niggers.

Re:Silk?

[Zayin]

Fine. You are aware, though, that Microsoft provides a free Powerpoint Viewer? All you have to do is go to microsoft.com and download it.

If it is Windows-only, then it is not "free" (as in beer). It is "included in the price of Windows".

Re:Bloatware

[rokzy]

hahaha @ coward.

my computer doesn't crash. it runs all my programs fast enough that I don't ever wait. how can you improve on this? spend more money to have to ask MS's permission to change my computer, and wasting resources on garish GUI's?

get a clue, you 'tard.

Re:OpenOffice

[ajs318]

A spell checker. As in

ajs318@laptop2:~$ spell -b foo

which returns a list of misspelled words; or

ajs318@laptop2:~$ spell -b foo |sort |uniq |wc |awk '{print $1}'

which just tells you how many individual words were misspelled.

Perhaps it's my experience with having used Protext on the Amiga, but I never saw the point of an interactive spelling checker. I want to type a document up, get the spelling checked while I'm away doing something else, then come back and correct the misspelt words. {I never cared too much about screen fonts matching printer fonts either. As long as I knew what the screen font looked like and what the printer font looked like, I would be happy.}

Windows must have equivalents for spell, sort, uniq and awk, right? 'Cause after all, everyone says it's so much better than other OSes ..... so it must have the basics, even on the minimal installation ..... surely?

Re:My new machine at work came with 2003 on it

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't be an idiot.

But that's one of the prerequisites for being an anti-M$ zealot...