OT-Microsoft Office help

[magicfan4life05]

hey guys i have to get office because i only have the trial and it will end soon. So which one do i get: microsoft office standard 07 or office home and student?

theres a 10 dollar difference between them and only other differences are standard has outlook (the other doesnt) and home/student has onenote instead (the other doesnt)

i dont currently use either outlook or onenote (and dont know what they are for), but the thing is, which one is more important/better to have later on because if its only 10 dollars id like to get the better package...thx

[j-ragg]

You're better off trying the Media Lounge.

[LiteHedded]

outlook is a must for me. I would get the one with outlook.
outlook is an email client btw. an awesome one.

[MagicMadness]

What exactly does Outlook do though?

For example, I use a Yahoo! email account. I have never used Outlook ever since it was first introduced (haven't had the same email account the entire time, but still, I've never used Outlook).

[Happyfoosball]

www.openoffice.org

k thx

[MagicMadness]

Meh, Open Office is decent if you don't get MS Office for free...

Edit: Don't get me wrong, Open Office is defintely solid, sorry, I just got a new computer at work, and the newest edition of MS Office came with it so I'm being a homer right now that I think about it.

[cwas2882]

If you're a student:


http://www.theultimatesteal.com/home.asp

[inmate347]

Download Open Office or search around online for a way to :P extend your trial period indefinitely. :P There is no sense in paying so much money for such a simple app. I've got MS Office 2007 Enterprise Edition and it seems pretty good, though I don't use it too much (finished college).

[N4U|Redux]

Open Office sucks balls if you do anything halfway serious.

Get the version with Outlook, I doubt you'll ever use OneNote. I also do not use Outlook, but it is a pretty good email client.

EDIT: A nice, free, alternative to the crap that is Open Office is Symphony from IBM. It is built basically on top of OO with some improvements (and some things that make it worse) http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotu ... /home.jspa

Try out OO and Symphony before you go and buy Office if you're not a 'power user'

[N4U|Redux]

If you're a student:


http://www.theultimatesteal.com/home.asp

That's a sweet deal.

I bought the software through MS's involvement with my university and it cost about $30 more.

Either way, vastly cheaper than usual.