![]() Microsoft Office 2. Premium Edition Review. Every two to three years, Microsoft unleashes a new version of its venerable productivity suite, Microsoft Office, adding both features and bloat to what has always been a consistently excellent product. And on that note, Office 2. June 1. 99. 9, is no different: It's a massive beast, eager to eat up as much hard drive space as you'll give it. But it's also a worthy and compelling upgrade to the previous version, Office 9. Like Windows itself, the majority of Office sales come from new PC bundling. Those that get Office 2. They will certainly have the hardware muscle needed to best take advantage of the product. For users with older Windows 9. Office 2. 00. 0 requires a pretty hefty system. ![]() There's also a money issue: Is Office 2. Over the course of this multi- part review, I'll attempt to answer these questions, which are made a bit more difficult by the shear number of ways you'll be able to get Office. Office 2. 00. 0 is shipping in five distinct editions, including: Microsoft Office 2. ![]() Standard Edition: Includes Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power. Point. Microsoft Office 2. Small Business Edition: Includes Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, and Microsoft Office Small Business Tools. Microsoft Office 2. Professional Edition: Includes Word, Excel, Outlook, Power. Point, Access, Publisher, and Microsoft Office Small Business Tools. Microsoft Office 2. Premium Edition: Includes Word, Excel, Outlook, Power. Point, Access, Front. Page, Publisher, Photo. Draw (previously released), and Microsoft Office Small Business Tools. Microsoft Office 2. ![]() ![]() Developer Edition: Includes Office 2. Premium Edition with tools and documentation for Office developers. Basically, each of these editions builds on the previous edition, adding new features, programs, tools, and of course pricing. The edition you choose should be based on cost and the number of features you require. Office developers know who they are and will be getting this edition regardless of my opinion. New features in Office 2. After the completion of Office 9. The Microsoft Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 Operating System Management Pack provides fundamental monitoring basics for computers running Windows Client 2000. Installing the IME in Windows Vista : How do I install the Japanese IME in Windows Vista? To install the Japanese IME in Windows Vista, start by opening the Control Panel. From Microsoft: Synchronize your Windows Mobile-based device with a Windows powered desktop PC. Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 is the latest sync software release for.
![]() Microsoft Office team met to discuss features for the next major revision. The team decided to contact its biggest customers and, in a unique change of pace for the company, actually find out what features they wanted. In typical Microsoft fashion, however, they also added a host of features no one was really asking for (at least directly) in an attempt to drive home the . And the results, as you might expect, are mixed. Given this little bit of history, here are the three primary goals of Office 2. Web integration. Easily accessible data (including over the Web)Intelligent and personalized software. Any attempt at understanding Office 2. I personally find it hard, if not impossible, to believe that anyone was asking for Web integration, for example, yet it's telling that this is the first item on Microsoft's list of goals. And they even snuck in a mention of the Web on the second goal, which probably was a customer request until that was added. Looking over the list of new features in Office 2. Others- -like the nasty new Office 2. ![]() Clipboard- -are puzzling in their complexity. And the Web emphasis, well, it's just plain crazy. Microsoft's literature for Office 2. Let's take a look. In fact, the Open and Save dialogs in Office 2. Windows 2. 00. 0 too. But that's the problem: Office isn't the place to be adding new system features like this. And users of Windows 9. Office 2. 00. 0 and those used by every other program. This feature should have been left for Windows 2. On the other hand, the dialogs are quite nice and easy to use. They feature far more in the way of file management than the older dialogs, with an Outlook bar of frequently- visited locations on the left and a full range of file system tools on the top (Go up one folder, Create new folder, and the like). Overall, this feature is a mixed blessing: The dialogs are great but currently they are also 1. Windows system on the planet. The Office 2. 00. Clipboard (Figure 3) is easily the most controversial new feature that's been added to the suite in this release. Using the standard Windows Clipboard, users are able to copy or cut one item- -be it text, graphics, whatever- -into a special hidden . This system has become quite natural over the years and most Windows users are probably pretty comfortable with it. Office 2. Clipboard (that only works in some Office 2. And while it might seem like a good idea at first glance, the actual implementation of this feature leaves a lot to be desired. The problem with the Office Clipboard is that it pops up a small windowed toolbar, right in the center of the screen. If you attempt to dock the toolbar with the other Office 2. There is simply no way to configure the little bugger and it gets excruciatingly annoying after a few appearances. On the plus side, it will turn itself off if you close the toolbar window three times in a row. This particular feature should have been left to a later release or, more obviously, to a later version of Windows itself (perhaps 2. I expect users to hate this feature and I recommend shutting it down immediately (using the three closes in a row) so that you never need to deal with it again. This feature should not have been included as- is in Office. Another mixed- bag, depending on how you setup Office, the new suite features an Install on Demand feature that allows you to install a subset of the total suite and have the applications automatically install new features as you need them. It's a great idea for those of us doing a network install (and let's face it, Office is sold primarily to large corporations) but for us home users, it's going to be a pain because every time a new feature needs to be installed, you'll be prompted for the Office 2. CD- ROM. Oh joy. I guess the point here is that home users should be sure to install everything they need the first time, unless they plan on leaving the CD- ROM in the drive. In a related note, Office 2. Office 2. 00. 0 is smart enough to realize when files are missing or corrupted and will automatically replace them. Again, home users will be prompted for the CD- ROM, but corporate environments with network installations will have a seamless, self- repairing environment. For both of these features, home users are going to be somewhat in the lurch. They'll work, but you'll need to have your install CD handy. In a stunning bit of inconsistency, Microsoft has elected to change some- -but not all- -of its Office 2. Single Document Interface (SDI), where every document is contained in its own parent window (Figure 4). In earlier versions of Office, documents were all contained within a single parent window. This type of window is called Multiple Document Interface (MDI) because a single window contains multiple documents. So what's the big deal? Certainly, SDI is easier. If you're working with two Word documents, for example, they will both show up individually in the Windows taskbar and you can ALT+TAB between them; this is far easier than groping for the Window menu with the mouse pointer, as you had to do in Office 9. But the feature was inconsistently implemented as many Office 2. Front. Page- -do not feature an SDI interface, but still rely on the old MDI style of window. I guess I have to say I love this feature because I use Word every day and I often have multiple documents open. But I wish they had made its use more consistent across the Office apps. In another grand attempt to bypass the operating system, the Office team has added personalized menus and toolbars to Office 2. This feature, which will become a standard part of the operating system with Windows 2. Some will be overjoyed with the feature while others will loathe it.
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