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Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition [Old Version]

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Inspite of having XP in its name, Office Developer XP does not completely load on Windows XP. There are problems will Exchange and SQL servers workflows. This product was touted by Microsoft has having a developmental envirnoment, but does so only on a server (which already has the services for this product). Also, Microsoft omitted a web server to be use for development. A few years ago they provided the personal web servicer as a free download, which could use for developing web sites having ASP and Front Page extensions, but the PWS is only for Windows 95/98. Now the independent developer at a minimum has to lease space on a provider's web server.

Furthermore, the product interfers with Visual Basic 6. Office somehow tries to re-install itself when Visual Basic is ran. It prevents Visual Basic from opening existing projects.

Save yourself the money, if you need to get Office XP buy the standard or professional. You'll will probably need the cash to upgrade Visual Basic and/or rent server space.

MOD XP is a great edition of Office XP for professional Access developers and those who want to grow into becoming professionals. Microsoft took all the features that made Access 2000 a landmark version and made them even better in Access 2002. For example, ADO offers improved data access for more data resources, data access pages make it easier to create web solutions, Office XP Web Components offer exciting new analysis and charting capabilities for distributed, decision-support applications. My personal favorite strength about Access 2002 is its improved interoperability with SQL Server 2000. This capability equips Access developers to create SQL Server solutions more easily and rapidly than ever before. In addition, SQL Server DBAs now have a RAD tool that lets them respond to more requests for creating reports, forms, and web pages with any version of SQL Server.

The resources that MOD XP delivers especially target professional developers. This edition of Office XP comes with developer versions of SQL Server 2000 and Exchange Server 2000. In addition, this version contains the Access run-time version and a license to redistribute Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE) that is SQL Server 2000 compatible. CDs that ship with MOD XP provide more valuable software and automatic updates to Windows as well.

Finally, MOD XP also includes the Microsoft Office XP Developer's Guide. This book drills down on the many innovations with the product since the Access 2000 release. For example, there is extensive coverage of how to build workflow solutions for SQL Server databases. The book also provides guidance on how to create digital dashboards. The book closes with a collection of charts for all the object models that ship with Office XP. Microsoft made this book's content more accessible than ever by giving it a Books Online style UI. Now, Office XP developers can readily search for topics by keywords as well as by an index and a table of contents. They can also save their favorite resource pages.

...If you're an intense Access or Excel macro user, you might want to go with this.

Anyone else can get go to openoffice.org and download that office suite instead. Or get StarOffice here. You can do so many of the same things. Open or create Word files, do all the stuff you can do in Word, save'em back as Word format or not. Make web pages. Do mail merges, hooked up to any database you want. Do presentations. Impress is the PowerPoint equivalent and reads those file formats. It's got good effects and animation. Do all the spreadsheets you want. The Excel equivalent handles Excel formats and lets you save back out in that format or not.

And the openoffice and staroffice file sizes are tiny. If you've ever been really annoyed by bloated MS Office file sizes, you are going to love openoffice or staroffice. Really small files.

Put the money in your 401k. Skip MS Office.

Between the voice recognition API and SQL developement tools (including a special version of SQL Server), Microsoft has finally launched an AWESOME developement suite to help integrate your custom apps w/ Office and ESPECIALLY ease deployment of SQL-based solutions. Having FrontPage with the suite also helps having a standard medium for deploying web-base apps and that new SharePoint portal server is SWEET!

No, No No! No monakeys here! Makes me Heep and scream. You see the digital dashboards--laugh in the back. Why do yo ask? Why is there why, or why equals how. That's it now! With the program, you are unstoppable. Not to forget the web power of cling. Yes Yes Yes!! Take that away though, you have monakeys with apebates. Take care of those socks.