Office 2004 - Software with Style
I don’t normally describe software as sexy but with Microsoft Office 2003, it’s hard to do otherwise. Yes I know, that deploying it across a business will add a string of zeros to your total cost of ownership and might even force you to mortgage your house and sell your children to Microsoft but having Office 2003 sitting smugly on your PC is rather like, well, having the benefit of an expensive Italian mistress, without the grief of being manager of the England football squad.
I’ll leave product reviews to others who have a spare lifetime to find their way around the new Office features and wax lyrical on the subject of XML and digital rights management. I mostly use Word and Outlook, sometimes PowerPoint and occasionally Excel to help me add-up numbers when I run out of fingers. If you happen to subscribe to the theory that the Personal Computer only exists as a platform for Microsoft to develop Office upon, then you have to wonder how much more func…
I don’t normally describe software as sexy but with Microsoft Office 2003, it’s hard to do otherwise. Yes I know, that deploying it across a business will add a string of zeros to your total cost of ownership and might even force you to mortgage your house and sell your children to Microsoft but having Office 2003 sitting smugly on your PC is rather like, well, having the benefit of an expensive Italian mistress, without the grief of being manager of the England football squad.
I’ll leave product reviews to others who have a spare lifetime to find their way around the new Office features and wax lyrical on the subject of XML and digital rights management. I mostly use Word and Outlook, sometimes PowerPoint and occasionally Excel to help me add-up numbers when I run out of fingers. If you happen to subscribe to the theory that the Personal Computer only exists as a platform for Microsoft to develop Office upon, then you have to wonder how much more func…