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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."
Given some of the crap that Windows programs leave when you try to uninstall them, I don't think I'd trust an email to be completely removed from the system.
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Are like wet ducks in the desert... it's just not quite right.
Cool, know we know what we're going to see in the next version of OpenOffice.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
Since when are Self destructing documents a "new feature?"
We all saw that coming so I figured we might as well get it over with.
Can we get Charlton Heston to be the new Vi spokesman? I just wanna see him go to computer conferences, hold up the Vi source code printed on old style dot matrix printer paper and say "From my dead cold hands"
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Now Microsoft will have an excuse to avoid turning documents over during the discovery processes of the various lawsuits against them.
"Honest, your honor. The document self destructed the day we were supposed to turn it over."
*blink*
People actually *read* power point presentations?
I thought the whole point of those things was to hypnotize the audience so they don't realize you actually have nothing meaningful to say.
Why isn't there a penguin assistant for OO? I make fun of the stupid paperclip in MS Office but at least they let you change it. When I had to use Windows 98 with Office 2000 I actually kind of liked having the little cat run around purring, and on the Mac I liked the dog, panting and smiling, I could imagine he was cheering me on as I typed, getting excited at my more insightful moments of composition...
at least for a week or so anyway. Then I turned the damn thing off.
I know it's slashdot and everything, but it really should be whose.
Who's represents "who is."
Thanks,
Your friendly neighborhood anal Slashdot reader.
"Several of Microsoft's MVPs, or Most Valuable Professionals, also served as beta testers for Office 2003."
So what is this MVP thing? Microsoft Victimized Programmer? I tried looking it up on the web but it's a very nebulous thing. Sniff Gates' butt enough and they might let you put that after your name for a year. I see nothing that prevents me from putting it after my name as well. Hmmm.... Starting tomorrow I'm going to actually put MVP after my sig on every online forum I participate in! It's not like I'm pretending to be a doctor or a lawyer or *gasp* an MSCE perfessional, is it? Yes. That is what I will do. It will cause chaos and confusion everywhere! I can just see the naive newbies now as a real live MVP starts to dis Microsoft products at every turn.
Self-destructing documents? Now?
Since when this is a new feature? Word 97 already destroys documents since long ago... and uncleanly, too!