Comment Well I love Office 2k7 personally (Score 1) 598
I am the IT guy for a growing company. Currently we have some Acrobat licenses so a few people can do the PDFing (yes I know there are cheaper alternatives but it's hard to get people to use them). We use Sage ACT! as a CRM, but only version 6 because for what we use it for it's not worth the huge upgrade cost. We have an exchange server which we don't use to the full potential because of some users still running older versions of MS Office so it can run with the aforementioned version of ACT!, etc etc etc
To ensure that everyone that needs to be able to pdf can pdf would cost thousands in additional acrobat licenses. To upgrade ACT! would cost thousands in upgrade costs.
What I love about the new office is these and other things. In my professional capacity I love the fact that :
- Office can save documents as PDF files using the "Save as" dialogue instead of having to PDF using Adobe Acrobat or something like PDFMaker
- Office can act as a CRM (some versions - Outlook w/ Business Contact Manager). Whilst not as fully functional (have yet to test 2007) as some of the dedicated solutions it will integrate. Something that the current CRM I use refuses to do with versions of Office newer than 2002 (XP). There was a BCM in Outlook 2003 but this was not easily able to be shared across a network as it was designed as a single-user sort of product.
- The new file format, while not as well supported at present, saves significant amounts of disk space. When running a server on a budget that means I have to manage the space available very carefully, the fact that Office documents willl take up 10%-60% of the space they once did is significant (the largest saving I have had on a like-for-like document is a 150kb document shrinking to 15kb)
Now on to the layout. Yes it's different. Yes I forsee a LOT of headaches coming my way teaching the less adept users how to use the new interface.
However past the initial headaches and retraining I forsee a lot of benefits. The new interface is very simple to use when you get used to it. I now use Word 2007 for all my blogging thanks to the fact it can effortlessly integrate with my Wordpress blog. I use Outlook for all my scheduling, emailing, contact in general (although in all fairness outlook seems generally unchanged on the surface)
With MS Office 2007 I will be getting all members of my company up to the same version simplifying troubleshooting because I won't have the problem that some users will be running different versions for compatinility with older software. I will be able to standardise installations because all users current and future will run MS Office 2007 and so I won't need to have loads of CDS and all that.
Well, I am starting to babble on now, all in all I love office. It will cost a lot in the short term to upgrade, that is why I will likely be opting for a volume license agreement to cut down immediate costs. I think that over time it will be worth every penny.
To ensure that everyone that needs to be able to pdf can pdf would cost thousands in additional acrobat licenses. To upgrade ACT! would cost thousands in upgrade costs.
What I love about the new office is these and other things. In my professional capacity I love the fact that :
- Office can save documents as PDF files using the "Save as" dialogue instead of having to PDF using Adobe Acrobat or something like PDFMaker
- Office can act as a CRM (some versions - Outlook w/ Business Contact Manager). Whilst not as fully functional (have yet to test 2007) as some of the dedicated solutions it will integrate. Something that the current CRM I use refuses to do with versions of Office newer than 2002 (XP). There was a BCM in Outlook 2003 but this was not easily able to be shared across a network as it was designed as a single-user sort of product.
- The new file format, while not as well supported at present, saves significant amounts of disk space. When running a server on a budget that means I have to manage the space available very carefully, the fact that Office documents willl take up 10%-60% of the space they once did is significant (the largest saving I have had on a like-for-like document is a 150kb document shrinking to 15kb)
Now on to the layout. Yes it's different. Yes I forsee a LOT of headaches coming my way teaching the less adept users how to use the new interface.
However past the initial headaches and retraining I forsee a lot of benefits. The new interface is very simple to use when you get used to it. I now use Word 2007 for all my blogging thanks to the fact it can effortlessly integrate with my Wordpress blog. I use Outlook for all my scheduling, emailing, contact in general (although in all fairness outlook seems generally unchanged on the surface)
With MS Office 2007 I will be getting all members of my company up to the same version simplifying troubleshooting because I won't have the problem that some users will be running different versions for compatinility with older software. I will be able to standardise installations because all users current and future will run MS Office 2007 and so I won't need to have loads of CDS and all that.
Well, I am starting to babble on now, all in all I love office. It will cost a lot in the short term to upgrade, that is why I will likely be opting for a volume license agreement to cut down immediate costs. I think that over time it will be worth every penny.
