Microsoft Office XP Standard [OLD VERSION]

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005AFHZ
• Item model number: 021-04491
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 19, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #565 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Amazon.com Review
Microsoft Office XP's empowering document design tools, integration of voice recognition functionality, and impressive network- and Web-based sourcing capabilities should be enough to convince those interested in saving time and consolidating effort to take the leap.

In keeping with Microsoft's much-ballyhooed .NET strategy, Office XP introduces several features that utilize the vast infosphere inhabited by the 21st-century desk jockey. Smart tags beckon underneath recognized objects like misspellings or symbols, offering a stock quote here, a synonym there, or "Would anyone care to configure my auto-correction list?" The task pane looks similar to Microsoft Internet Explorer's Explorer Bar, and acts like an open tool chest pulled up alongside each application in the suite, providing readily configured searches for information or multimedia files. Putting up a team Web site that tracks projects and serves as an information hub requires only the use of one of the included templates, ready to be customized and uploaded to the server.

The Send for Review feature further streamlines the collaborative process by allowing the sender to view revisions made by multiple parties within the framework of the original document. Outlook now features a color-coded calendar and easier meeting management, along with instant messaging and variable e-mail account access. All user system errors can be tracked globally, and then network security settings modified remotely while anti-virus and debugging IT resources are diverted accordingly.

After firing up Microsoft Word, typing "Dear Somebody," and hitting the Enter key, we made a startling discovery. Up popped Clippy, Microsoft's publicly pink-slipped office assistant. Clippy might have aptly announced, "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated," but instead predictably observed, "It looks like you're writing a letter." Once the groans of disbelief had subsided, we quickly right-clicked and banished Clippy to the silicon ether, presumably forever. --Dominic Johnson

Product Description
Microsoft Office XP 2002 Standard . Microsoft Office XP 2002 Standard includes:

• Word XP
  
• Excel XP
  
• Outlook XP
  
• PowerPoint XP

Microsoft Office XP redefines the relationship between people and software by delivering a new set of experiences that provide a smarter way of working. Office XP delivers a personal experience, simplifying the way you work, a collaborative experience, helping your teamwork easily together, and an extended experience, enabling you to continually integrate additional services into Office and access information anytime.

Office XP provides you with a variety of new experiences that will give you greater control over the way Office works, easier access to information from the Web or your Office applications, and tools that ensure you don't lose your important information. Whether you are working with one other person on a document or working with a group of coworkers on a project, Office XP features easy-to-use tools that help your team share and collaborate with one another more efficiently. Office XP offers organizations a variety of tools to help lower costs, improve deployment, administration, and management, and build customized, integrated business solutions that meet their business needs.

Office XP 2002 Standard System Requirements

• Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 (SP6) or later,³ Windows 2000, or Windows XP or later.
  
• 24 MB RAM if using Windows 98, 32 MB RAM if using Windows ME or NT, 64 MB RAM if using Windows 2000, or 128 MB RAM if using Windows XP
  
• 210 MB of available hard disk space - An additional 115 MB is required on the hard disk where the operating system is installed. Users without Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Office 2000 Service Release 1 (S...
  
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

62 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Like Office 2000? Like Office 2000., June 14, 2001

By	Timothy Walker (Orlando, Florida USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My company's Microsoft rep recently gave me a T-shirt that reads "Office XP - upgrade today!". I write this review to reclaim my soul. Office XP is NOT a necessary upgrade, nor is it necessarily the best option for a new system.

A point-by-point comparison of the latest and the last version of the suite is not necessary, as they are virtually identical. Aside from minor enhancements, the only noticeable new feature is a MS Works-like "task pane" which takes up valuable screen real estate (thankfully, it is easily disabled). Perhaps the most talked about aspects of the new Office are the Activation Wizard (which restricts multiple installations) and the fact that "Clippy" doesn't appear as often. I am rather annoyed that I will probably have to call Redmond after upgrading my new PC, but given rampant software piracy, I understand the motivation (let he who has no "offsite backups" cast the first stone). And let's face facts: if you can't figure out how to turn off the talking paper clip, you probably need the talking paper clip!

Bottom line: the money you save buying Office 2000 will more than make up for any "features" in XP you miss. Move quickly – soon you won’t have the choice.

42 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars To expensive for what it is, November 6, 2002

By A Customer

I was about to buy this product since its the one I use at the office, but when I looked at the price I did some research first.
Why would I buy it, when I can get very similar alternatives for much less like StarOffice? of even for free (OpenOffice). It does have nice features but most of them I have never used. I have been using OpenOffice for the past 3 months and I haven't missed a feature yet. If you are buying this office suite I would recommend you try OpenOffice first, it could save you a lot of money.

36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS THE WORST!, November 2, 2002

By	"dangeroustania" (Evans, GA United States) - See all my reviews

I bought this software 8 months ago. My hard drive went bad recently. I tried to install this software again on my NEW hard drive. YOU CAN'T!! I wasted hundreds of dollars on a product I can't use now! I called to have my registration trasfered to my new computer but Microsoft won't let me transfer my registration or have the software on two PC's. WHAT A BUNCH OF BULL! DON'T BUY THIS VERSION! Not only is there the above problem but there are many better programs available, with more advantages, cheaper price and no hassle. I'm not anti-Microsoft but this experience has shown me what this company stands for.