Microsoft Office 2007: Advantages and Disadvantages

Microsoft Office 2007 is a system that is used everyday. It is more than just Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, it is a new world of communication. Office 2007 allows users to integrate communications and use web-services with the Office applications that people use everyday. This system allows us to collaborate, communicate and accomplish many tasks. Some advantages and disadvantages of this system are listed below. Please comment on any experiences you have had with Microsoft Office 2007.

Advantages of Microsoft Office 2007:

• Publish and maintain blogs directly from Office Word 2007
• Connect quickly and easily from remote locations
• Communicate with users across platforms and devices
• Reduce your document sizes and improve file recovery at the same time
• Extend data-gathering solutions to anyone with a browser

Disadvantages of Microsoft Office 2007:

• Expensive
• In order to use it effectively you need training
• No forward compatibility for older Office documents
• Layout is completely different from older Office
• Complex and advanced