ActiveWin - Office XP With FrontPage - Conclusion

Product: Microsoft Office XP Professional With FrontPage
Company: Microsoft
Website: http://www.microsoft.com/office
Estimated Street Price: Various
Review By: Byron Hinson & Julien Jay

Well we have reached the end of the review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for Office XP.

There isn't really anything too bad to say about this new release of Office, that's not to say that everything is great either, FrontPage and Access are disappointing upgrades over their predecessors and don't do justice to the rest of the components that make up Office XP. Speech is damn right buggy and a big disappointment overall. But Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel are all excellent upgrades over their 2000 versions which thankfully make up for those two disappointments earlier. There are some worries with security risks for the Smart Tags feature but these are very unlikely to happen. So overall a very good upgrade over Office 2000...but as usual, if you don't feel you need the new features, there is no need to upgrade.

Specs & Package
Overall Score	88%
Version Reviewed	Office XP Professional With FrontPage
Release Date	Available Now!
In the Box	Microsoft Press CD (No Box)
The Good Points	Excellent Programs Improved Help Improved Installation New Features
The Bad Points	Access and FrontPage Do Not Have Many New Features Speech Feature isn't included in localized versions of the suite
Reviewers PC Setup	Pentium III 800 EB ABIT BE6-II+RAID Motherboard Windows Me 256 Meg PC 133 SD-Ram 20 GB Quantum Fireball AS ATA 100 HD Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra DirectX 8a SoundBlaster Live! Value 19" Iiyama Monitor Microsoft Force Feedback Pro 2 Microsoft Game Pad Pro (USB) Microsoft Digital Sound System 80 Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer DVD TV Player - Pioneer DV-626D Widescreen TV - Sony KV-28WS2U 28" DVD-ROM: Memorex DVD-Maxx 12x
PC Required	Minimum System Windows 98, Windows Me or Windows 2000 Pentium II or higher 64MB SDRAM CD-Rom Drive 100Mb of free hard disk space