Microsoft Office 2010 Professional (Disc Version)

(as of 28/08/2010 02:39 - more info)

$500

Listed Under: Business and Office

Updates to Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.? Includes 2010 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access.? Microsoft Office Professional 2010 gives you the tools to m..read more

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5 Reviews

  1. RBMunkin says:
    August 26, 2010 at 12:00 am

    One reviewer said “The price point is quite high, sure, but it’s simply asinine to rate a product based on that.” Personally, I think THAT is asinine. But to each their own. Price is an inherent part of a product.

    That being said, I think it’s a fine product except there is not enough in the way of upgrades to justify the price. Which is born out by the fact that you can easily get it for about half the price on ebay. That shows you it’s true market value.

    Personally, I wouldn’t even spend $200 for this. If you want that much of my money, MS, you’ll need to put more effort into improvements.

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  2. Brian Baker says:
    August 26, 2010 at 12:00 am

    I started using Word as part of the WorksSuite 2000 bundle, and thought it was a great word processing program. I just kept right on loading it on each successive computer I bought until I finally sprang for Office Home and Student 2007.

    That version seems to have a lot more visual bells and whistles, but when you cut to the chase, it really does pretty much the same thing as my 2000 version did. Of course, I also got PowerPoint, OneNote, and Excel.

    I now have Office Professional 2010 (In the interest of disclosure, I received it free for reviewing purposes through the Vine Program). I have to say, I’m not really seeing any substantive changes over the 2007 version.

    Which brings another point into play. In the 2010 offerings, the current price listing here on Amazon for the Home and Student version is under $150, while the Professional version is listed at over $400. For that $250 difference, you get Outlook, Publisher, and Access.

    I suppose if you have a business use for those programs, maybe they’re worth that much extra money. I don’t, so I wouldn’t have paid that much for this program; I’d have stayed at the Home and Student level.

    I also don’t see substantive changes as these program versions change, from 2007 to 2010, for example. So it seems to me that unless this is the first time you’ve bought a software bundle like this, it would be hard to justify the cost simply to have a later version, particularly since there are a couple of other manufacturers out there that publish similar bundles.

    From a performance standpoint, I guess I’d give it five stars. No doubt a great performer, and the Gold Standard in the corporate environment. But then I simply have to deduct two stars because of the pricing issue, so three stars it is.

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  3. Demand Curve says:
    August 26, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Look, the reality is that Office is the standard by which all other are measured. Yeah, if you are building cheap machines, then open office is really a nice option. Also – don’t forget about Google Docs – because that is what 2010 is aiming at. This version of office integrates the desktop you are at with a web version. This allows editing at your desktop from home then saving – then picking back up at the office. No more flash drives to carry with you everywhere and multiple versions.

    This is where Office 2010 shines and aims at preventing the good majority of people from creating their docs in Office and then quickly moving it to Google Docs. Where it is edited and then it stays. Microsoft sees this as a threat and it has proven to get their attention.

    The good news for us – we get an optimized and improved Office that is worthy of an upgrade from 2007. But I am guessing that many people held off from buying 2007 when vista had belly flopped …

    Well, it is now due time to make the switch to the docx format and take the plunge into a refined and very usable office suite.

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  4. Morley Dotes says:
    August 25, 2010 at 12:00 am

    I use OpenOffice (OO) and have been very happy with it, however, now that I have used MS Office 2010 Pro (MSOP), I see what I have been missing! While OO is a perfectly good suite, moving up to MSOP is like trading in your Hyundai for a Maybach. First of all, you can easily download it and use your key, so into my netbook it went. A couple of things to mention as far as system requirements go. You will need at least 500mhz or faster, 512 meg of ram (forget the 256 min.), 3 gigs free hd space, 1024×576 resolution, etc..

    Let’s start by mentioning that the Backstage view is great! Everything you could ask for and then some on one menu. PDF export! Sweet!! Word and Publisher have great photo editing abilities (much better than I expected), and enough that I probably could use it for most of my needs over Adobe Elements…..it’s great for the average user (I’m not giving Adobe though). Outlook’s Conversation View is great. It gives you the ability to have a thread as a tree, making it easy to keep everything together and in order. Outlook, Word and Publisher are easily my favorites here, as I would use them quite often. The first thing I love about word is that I am not asked how I would like to save my file. OO would always ask me, and I alway saved it as a .doc file, and it got to be very annoying after a short while. I can easily create a newsletter here (as well as with Publisher). This is such a strong program that I can do almost everything that I need with it.

    While I admit to not having to use Excel very often, I can tell you that I like the way it looks, much better than the OO application. Looks aside, however, I do not think it would make a difference for me, but like I said, I do not have much use for this. What I did do was create a spreadsheet for one of my collections. It was very simple and basic, and quite easy to put together. I’m sure that if I were more adept, I could do quite a bit with it.

    Publisher is great, and will replace PrintShop for me. I manages everything very well, it’s fast, it’s intuitive….I love it. This may be my favorite application of this suite. I can do so much with it. I used i to design an ad for my office and it was very easy. I have tried to mention the alternative software that I normally use so you can see my reference point. If you use other software, your opinion may differ.

    So, why do I give it 4 stars if I love it so much? I just don’t see the value when you can get OO for free. At half the cost, I think this is a no-brainer for anyone, but for full price, I think it is probably best suited for more serious users or businesses. So, take off one star, but only because I cannot take off half and this just isn’t a 5 star suite for me. As I use it more, and experiment with some of the other applications in the suite, I may come back and change it to 5, but for now, let’s call it 4.5.

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  5. LS says:
    August 23, 2010 at 12:00 am

    This version is not the upgrade version it is for new installs and is priced as such. This is the most expensive way to get office. Unless you need publisher or access you can probably save money by getting the home and business version rather then the professional version. If I was upgrading I would probably not see a compelling reason to pay to go from 2007 to 2010 until there is a reduced priced upgrade version other then to get a tax write off. You can also get a significant savings by using the down loadable version and not this DVD version. It comes as a single DVD.

    I installed this as a new, not upgrade, I’ve used Office 2007 at work but had Openoffice on my home computer. So my rating and review is based on that.

    Open Office has the look and feel and functionality of Office 2003 but it a bit of a intense resource hog even with less functionally. Open Office is free so there is bonus points for that. I was able to get by with Open Office on my home machine but I have to admit that there were many times I just did things at work because I could not get it to look right at home or I was dealing with really large spreadsheets. So when I was down to just my home machine it because apparent that I needed move up. The main drag is working with large files and some formatting functional improvements that Open Office is missing.

    2010 has a very nice look and feel very similar to 2007 but the things that I found annoying in 2007 appear to be much better in 2010. I like the tab layout at the top. It is much better then clicking on the icon. It just seems cleaner and more intuitive then 2007 but still very similar.

    I’ve installed this on a 64 bit with an i7 920 processor clocked at 2.67GHz with 12.0GB memory. Way more horse power then should be needed so I cannot address performance issues on this machine. It took all of 6 minutes to complete the install with no input on my part other then to enter the product key. This appears to have installed on my C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Office. Which works for me. It did not add any desktop or shortcut icons and nothing new showed up in my tray after reboot. I simply found a new folder under all programs with the title “Microsoft Office”. It did not add a bunch of new services or extra Junkware.

    If just looking as usability and functionality 2010 win out over the choice between Office 2003, (only slightly)2007 or OpenOffice. Depending on the need for Access and Publisher I might go the route of Home and Business rather then this one. I doubt it is worth it getting the DVD version over just the down loadable version unless you have very slow internet access or your installing it on many machines and you want one hard copy. If you really want it cheap take a class at your community college and get the student version.

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