In short yes. Office particularly is a fantastic product and much improved over the previous versions; if you only buy one of these Microsoft Office 2007 should be it.

It has the brand new UI which makes things a lot easier and once you get to learn what is quite a radical departure from any other version of Office you will find doing even the most complex task easier.

So what do you get for your money below is a table from Microsofts site which goes though what each version contains.

Just one pitfall to look out for, as you will see the ‘Home and Student’ edition doesn’t come with Outlook which I don’t particularly agree with although Microsoft are probably only doing this so that users may pick up ‘Live Mail Desktop’ which is the replacement for ‘Outlook Express’.

So what about Vista? Well it got more of the attention rightly or wrongly, but should users be upgrading yet?

It isn’t an easy one to call, anyone getting a new PC should have no quibbles about upgrading, in fact I don’t think there will be much choice. For everyone else, I would say hold off until you upgrade. The improvements in Vista are great, it does look nice, it does things properly for a change but does that necessarily justify the expence of picking up a copy, not to mention the cost in possible hardware upgrade that you might need? I don’t think so. But don’t get me wrong Vista will run fine on a half decent PC that could run XP, you won’t get all the fancy stuff which some say is the main selling point but it will still run.

So what version of Vista should you get? The best guide on the product version is on the winsupersite.com where they have an in depth review which I’d suggest you read before doing anything.

Paul has also brought out a great book which goes into great detail about Vista and things it may take some of us a long time to figure out oddly enough called Windows Vista Secrets.

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