Office 95 users can't upgrade, either-the only way they can get Office XP is to pay the new user price.
Microsoft has also eliminated competitive suite upgrades-users of, say, WordPerfect Office must fork over the full price if they want to switch. If you buy through an online discounter, the price should be a bit less for Standard-figure about US$200 to upgrade and US$430 for new users. When you factor in the now-missing rebate that was included in the last two editions of Office, Office XP costs about US$30 more than did Office 2000. If we can agree on that, let's move on to the other factors to consider. If you frequently need to churn out paper materials-newsletters, brochures, that sort of thing-I think the US$100 or so for a stand-alone copy of Publisher is a bargain. Under the circumstances, Standard is the best for small businesses upgrading or buying at retail. I've long said that Publisher is a more valuable player than PowerPoint for small businesses, so Microsoft's move to strike a Small Business package from the retail mix is a bad one. If you want to buy Office XP separately, you have just these three choices: Standard (which includes Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word) Professional (which adds Access to Standard) and Developer (which adds FrontPage to Professional). Microsoft's best value, Office XP Small Business, which includes Word, Excel, Publisher, and Outlook, is available only as one of two suite configurations pre-loaded onto new computers (the other is Professional with Publisher). (If you want to know about the nuts and bolts of Office XP, check out the review on ZDNet.)įirst, think about what version of the Office suite might suit you best. How do you know whether the new Office is a must-have upgrade? I've identified four strategic factors that I think should influence your decision about Office XP. Microsoft releases its newest business productivity suite, Office XP, on May 31. Microsoft Office has a stranglehold on the suite market, outpacing competitors like Corel WordPerfect Office and Sun's StarOffice by so much that there's really no competition. On | Topic: Microsoft Small businesses managing their livelihoods with PCs overwhelmingly turn to software suites for the guts of their productivity libraries: word processor and spreadsheet, and to a lesser degree e-mail client, scheduler, and presentation maker. Ukrainian developers share stories from the war zone
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