chris_baehr's Full Review: Microsoft Office XP Professional Full Version for ...
If I had my way, I'd still be using WordPerfect for my word processing needs. It was a better program than Word and was easier to use. I also preferred using Lotus 123 over Excel. Being a college student however, I have to use whatever the college has and that means riding the Microsoft bandwagon.
In these days of Microsoft ruling the world, you don't need to have a superior product to dominate the industry. You just need superior resources, anti-competitive practices, and the ability to design for the latest Windows operating system long before other developers get the same chance.
Here's the problem: Office has always been incredibly sluggish and slow to use. It is a major resource hog in an area where this type of software should run on the cheapest and slowest computers out there.
The integration is also a BAD thing. The programs are so tightly wound together that they virtually meld to your operating system. You practically can't get rid of them.
Then comes the price: Nobody in their right mind is going to pay that kind of money for this type of software except big businesses, colleges, or other people with money to throw away.
Far too many useless things included and more Microsoft propaganda and advertising. Fast Find has to be the most annoying program ever created! Not to mention the damn activation scheme which I'm sure we're going to see on EVERY Microsoft product from now on.
Microsoft has succeeded in one thing however: They have made computing more frustrating and more expensive now than it ever has been. So while everyone else blindly follows Microsoft, I'll happily use a simple word processor, simple spreadsheet program, and use plain old flat files for databases to save myself from endless upgrade headaches with Access.
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