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Product:
Office XP Beta 2
Company: Microsoft
Website: http://www.microsoft.com/office
Estimated Street Price: NA
Preview By: Active
Network
Final Results and Overall Mark
Well we have reached the end of the review. Here are
our final comments, notes and grades for the
Microsoft Office XP Preview.
Final
Comments
How
It Grades |
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No
Grading
Available
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Overall this is
a great program. Microsoft has taken the building blocks of past office
suites and made it more tightly integrated and has succeeded in making this a
more user friendly and features rich Office package.
The
‘where do you want to go today’ sentence takes a new
meaning with this brand new suite that’ll really change your office suite eXPerience.
This new release
is like the quintessence of Office 97: a great and major update of an already
outstanding product that’ll mark once again computing history. If IT analysts
often advise corporate buyers to buy one new version of Office of three
released this is surely the one you should pick up as soon as it’ll be
available!
We were very impressed by this press beta at ActiveWin and we couldn't wait
for the final version to be released!
Specs
& Package |
Overall
Score |
No
Grading Available |
Version
Reviewed |
Microsoft Office XP Press
Beta 2 |
Release
Date |
Second Quarter 2001 |
The
Good Points |
Tons of new features,
Redesigned interface,
New Task Panes,
Enhanced ClipBoard,
Speech Recognition feature,
Settings saving wizard. |
The
Bad Points |
PhotoDraw is missing,
Requires a powerful computer,
The activation feature is annoying. |
Reviewers
PC Setup |
Pentium
III 800 MHz
Asus P3C2000 Motherboard
Windows Millennium Edition
256 MB SDRAM w/ECC
DirectX 8a
17" Sony Trinitron Monitor
Hercules
3D Prophet II Ultra 64Mb AGP 4x Graphics Card
Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Adaptec 19160 Ultra SCSI card
Microsoft
TrackBall Explorer
Microsoft
Natural Keyboard Pro
DVD Pioneer 105s (16/40x)
Yamaha CRW2100E |
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