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Microsoft Office 2003 - Reviews, Overviews, Issues

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the spectacular-conglomeration dept.

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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  1. OpenOffice by Dreadlord · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool, know we know what we're going to see in the next version of OpenOffice.

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    The IT section color scheme sucks.
    1. Re:OpenOffice by lgftsa · · Score: 5, Funny

      *Real* men edit files by waving a magnet over the disk platters.

  2. New? by mabu · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Spartacus. Vi or Emacs user???? by niko9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Spartacus. Vi or Emacs user???? by IntelliTubbie · · Score: 5, Funny

      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"

      Uh, dude? Kirk Douglas was Spartacus. RTFIMDB.

      Perhaps you were thinking of Ben-Hur?. Sure, they're similar, but anyone who gets similar things like these confused should NOT use vi. You might end up trying to save a file and accidentally blow up a small village.

      Cheers,
      IT

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  5. Re:Don't like Moffice? by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.