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."

Comments

OpenOffice

[Dreadlord]

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

Re:OpenOffice

[lgftsa]

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

New?

[mabu]

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.

Re:Spartacus. Vi or Emacs user????

[IntelliTubbie]

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