http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-premium/
I was using Office 2010, but at $69 (military appreciation version) decided to go for it. It's an annual subscription but I get all the MS Office applications.
So far I like it.
Upgraded to Office 365
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Jvolstad, can you be more specific about "I like it" part, please?
Purchased Office 2003 earlier, and it's good enough for me in personal level. Then the wife once told me that her job offers an opportunity to buy new MS products for way less than retail and if I am interested. I think the offer is still valid if I want it.
And about Windows 8, I think I can get it cheap too. So the question is... is there anything noticably better w/ those new MS products to compare w/ windows 7 and Office 2003?
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Office 2003 was the last edition worth having.
At this point any Open Office is better.
Unless you just love OneNote and the conveluted Outlook so much that you can't live with out it. Even MySQL is better than Access at this point.
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Office 365 is a hosted solution (cloud based for the noobs) not really a "version". If you have multiple PCs you need office on, or run a small business, it can actually make sense to use. For most home users, open office or heck even notepad++ and the gimp are far more than enough.
Also, MySQL has always been better than Access. They're not even in the same league.
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Yup, office 365 indeed is sold by an annual subscription. I don't mind guys in Microsoft think their product newspaper or something, but I ain't buy it. On the other hand, office 2013 is sold by product key card, which is fine by me though I prefer having my own CD/DVD somewhere in my bookcase.
I loved that simple email that has no crap attached, called outlook express. Windows 7 not supporting it any more was like a slap in my face. I treat my personal email as my own small history of what I did with whom and when, and I wanted keep it in my own personal computer, not somewhere in the web. Of course, I have gmail and other web based emails, but they are for casual hanging out, not for anything serious or personal. It seems like they go cloud in these days rather than let people have it themselves, so outlook 2003 would be the last email client I ever buy as long as the OS I want to try supports it.
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I like Open Office. It's free and the file formats are not proprietary. The word processor in Open Office can handle much, much larger files than Microsoft Word. Plus, no stupid ribbon control.
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Open office, I am definitely going to take a look. But it seems it does not have outlook2003 compatable email client. Anyone can tell me something like that, so that I can know what's out there to replace it, in case I can't use outlook2003 any more for some reason?
Thanks.
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seaside says
Try Thunderbird it's better than Outlook Ex IMO.
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seaside says
Thunderbird.