Microsoft Office Standard 2007 UPGRADE

I only purchase this upgrade because my original OEM package did not have powerpoint.

What I ended up with is another brain fart by Microsoft. What possessed them to go out of their way to incovenience long time users of the products is beyond explanation.

What I have now is hours of lost productivity resulting from a completely remodeled GUI. LIke I really to spend my days learning a new interface. For what. What gain in functionality am I benefitting from.

As far as I concerned from heere on out. Microsoft is populated by a bunch of jerks trying rip off the corporate world. Too bad they don't have to compete on merit.

This was a questionable review. I had XP and didn't know whether the upgrade would make me more current so that I would be more easily able to upgrade to Window' new product coming in a number of months. The upgrade really did bring me closer to Vista, but I've had a number of problems that have caused me to need to reinstall the upgrade.

I've used Office 2003 since it came out and have been very happy with it. While there are a few more bells than 2003, I don't see a significant improvement over 2007's successor. Do I wish I hadn't bought it? No, there are a lot of templates that only work on Office 2007 that are dodgy at best on 2003.
Would I say run out and get this. No. Since Vista we have all been waiting for something new from Microsoft to come out that really is an improvement.

was not happy with the upgrade at first but have gotten used to the difference in the old system.

Not particularly fond of the new version of office. Required to run outlook with Vista. Like the 2000 version better, more straightforward.