Here's a good article about the new Office XP

[gyoung]

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2779746,00.html

Thought this was a good article on what may be to come.

[daveleau]

Yes a very good article. I sent it about 30 minutes ago to Sysopt for a news story when I saw it on ZDNet. I was expecting problems like this with the new licensing. I hope WinXP does better, but I doubt that it will.

Dave

[NDC]

OMG! I'd be would be IRATE if that kind of message popped out on me! What the heck is Bill thinking? It looks like he's looking for ways to give people a reason to stay away from Office XP. Just out of the blues, this application will ask you to insert the original CD to reactivate the application for further use? I think it would be a better idea to just add a dongle with the software they sell! I've seen some industrial software like that where a dongle needs to be connected to the LPT port for the application to function. Inserting the installation CDROM for license verfication seems to much of a hassle if you ask me...

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 06-26-2001).]

[daveleau]

I have noticed another problem in Office XP. I had a customer complain about errors when starting any Office XP app. The error pertained to Macros not being allowed to load. This is a problem anyone upgrading from Office 97 or 2000 will encur (this was stated ont he site before but they have since removed the bit about the upgrade bug). The only way to get rid of the error is to allow all visual basic scripting and to turn the security of Office XP to minimal. This can be very dangerous. The MS site has this work around and details can be read here:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q285/5/14.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=Macros%20in%20This%20Project%20Are%20Disabled&rnk=5&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=OFFXP

Dave

[club_med]

I can't believe it, I didn't think Bill was that dumb, or is it greedy?.

I'm staying away from anymore MS O's.

Don't need Big Brother In The Box thankyou.

cm.

[gyoung]

I think Office 2000 functions just fine for me. All I need: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc...

Does Office XP make my documents look better? I don't think that the Office tools change that much to really need updates that often. Especially for the home user. I probably use Word 95% of the time when it comes to the Office Suite.

I guess if you are developing using the Office suites then the updates affect you more.

The funny thing is that I don't really pay attention to Office updates (since all I really use is Word), but when a new OS comes out I want it. The reason this is funny is because I want the new OS so it doesn't crash so darn much! (AKA an OS that works!)

[ooops]

StarOffice is starting to look better and better .........