OT: Office XP Small Business

[Ragnarok]

I searched high and low and cannot find what software is bundled with Office XP SB. Does anyone here know what is included with it? One of our employees here at work is looking for a computer and he is asking for certain programs and I would like to know what is included with OXPSB.

Thanks for the help.

[Will]

Well, quick searches on Microsoft's site yielded cryptic information... they're more concerned about telling you about the wonderful document workspaces than what actual software you get.

But, from experience, I would assume that it would include Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, and Publisher. They might still be including FrontPage, if anyone would actually WANT to use that.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Will:
Well, quick searches on Microsoft's site yielded cryptic information... they're more concerned about telling you about the wonderful document workspaces than what actual software you get.

But, from experience, I would assume that it would include Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, and Publisher. They might still be including FrontPage, if anyone would actually WANT to use that.

Yeah, I couldn't find anything worthwhile on Microsofts site. They were more then happy to lend out information regarding Work Suite, but the information for OXPSB was as you said, cryptic. But thanks for the information, I was guessing it would include those programs, but I just wanted to make sure before I told anyone else.

[ January 14, 2004, 20:59: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Will:
Well, quick searches on Microsoft's site yielded cryptic information... they're more concerned about telling you about the wonderful document workspaces than what actual software you get.

But, from experience, I would assume that it would include Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, and Publisher. They might still be including FrontPage, if anyone would actually WANT to use that.

what would you recommend other than front page?

[Katchoo]

I checked out the Staples website and found this description of MS Office XP for SB:

http://www.staples.ca/products/catal...skusetid=17599

It's an upgrade copy, but it should give you the details you need.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
what would you recommend other than front page?

Notepad? www.editplus.com has good formatting stuff for color-coded tags. Macromedia has a Dreamweaver program that is similar to Frontpage IIRC, but would definitely be better. What exactly do you use Frontpage to do? If just writing HTML code, then a super-notepad program like Edit Plus 2 is all you would need. If you want the ability to just graphically move stuff around without having to write the actual HTML, I think Macromedia Dreamweaver can do that. Google is your friend. Sometimes your enemy as well, but usually friendly.

[Thermodyne]

Here you go, quotes on request


Office XP 2003 SB

- Word 2003
- Excel 2003
- Outlook 2003
- PowerPoint 2003
- Publisher 2003
- Microsoft Outlook 2003 With Business Contact Manager

Word 2003

Microsoft Office Word 2003, the latest Version of the best-selling word processor, takes customer experience and feedback to deliver innovations you can use to create impressive-looking documents and help you work better together.

Excel 2003

Microsoft Office Excel 2003 enables you to turn data into information with powerful tools to analyze, communicate, and share results. Excel 2003 can help you work better in teams, and help protect and control access to your work. In addition, you can work with industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) data to make it easier to connect to business processes.

Outlook 2003

Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 provides an integrated solution for managing and organizing e-mail Messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other information. Outlook 2003 delivers innovations you can use to manage your communications, organize your work, and work better with others—all from one place. Outlook 2003 uses an advanced Junk E-Mail Filter, a Trusted Senders List, and other features to better control the junk e-mail Messages—or spam—you receive.

PowerPoint 2003

Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003 includes new tools to help you create, present, and collaborate on presentations that have more impact.

Publisher 2003

Publisher 2003 is the marketing materials solution that helps you create professional publications for print, the Web, and e-mail—in-house. Start easy, finish fast, with familiar Microsoft Office System menus, toolbars, and features.

Or there is Pro

Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Includes:

- Word 2003
- Excel 2003
- Outlook 2003
- PowerPoint 2003
- Access 2003
- Publisher 2003
- Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager 2003


Word 2003
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Microsoft Office Word 2003, the latest Version of the best-selling word processor, takes customer experience and feedback to deliver innovations you can use to create impressive-looking documents and help you work better together.


Excel 2003

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Microsoft Office Excel 2003 enables you to turn data into information with powerful tools to analyze, communicate, and share results. Excel 2003 can help you work better in teams, and help protect and control access to your work. In addition, you can work with industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) data to make it easier to connect to business processes.


Outlook 2003

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Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 provides an integrated solution for managing and organizing e-mail Messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other information. Outlook 2003 delivers innovations you can use to manage your communications, organize your work, and work better with others—all from one place. Outlook 2003 uses an advanced Junk E-Mail Filter, a Trusted Senders List, and other features to better control the junk e-mail Messages—or spam—you receive.


PowerPoint 2003

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Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003 includes new tools to help you create, present, and collaborate on presentations that have more impact.


Access 2003

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Microsoft Office Access 2003 provides a powerful set of tools that are sophisticated enough for professional developers, yet easy to learn for new Users. Now everyone in your organization can create or use powerful database solutions that make organizing, accessing, and sharing information easier than ever.


Publisher 2003
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Publisher 2003 is the marketing materials solution that helps you create professional publications for print, the Web, and e-mail—in-house. Start easy, finish fast, with familiar Microsoft Office System menus, toolbars, and features.

[Thermodyne]

Office XP 2004 is out, but no deals on it yet. Also, Frontpage is a stand alone product.

[JayBdey]

Why would you WANT Microsoft Office? Open Office is free and is less bloated.

http://www.openoffice.org/about.html

[Will]

Originally posted by JayBdey:
Why would you WANT Microsoft Office? Open Office is free and is less bloated.

http://www.openoffice.org/about.html

Because damn near everyone in the business world already has Microsoft Office, gets MS Office files from other people/divisions/companies/etc. and the support for the MS file formats were lacking Last time I checked Open Office (can open basic documents, but if you start to get freaky with the comments, track changes, columns, tables, etc, like most business people I've met like to do, Open Office chokes). Because there are a lot of people that are computer illiterate, and only understand MS Office because of a 20-hour certification class -- any other software, even if it does the same thing, will confuse these people. And because a lot of companies still don't trust free/open source software.

Open Office is doing a good job so far, but they're still going to be a niche application suite for the more technically-inclined in the near future.