Earlier this week information about the prices for Windows Vista and Office 2007 started leaking out. My favorite source for Technology News, CyberNet Tech News first posted this information last Sunday (August 27th) with their article: Windows Vista and Office 2007 Prices. A couple things to keep in mind…first, unlike Windows XP, there four versions of Vista (not counting upgrades) and second those prices are a rough conversion based on the Canadian Prices posted on the Microsoft site. However, a couple days later, CyberNet via the Longhorn Blogs posted the prices for Windows Vista as they appeared on Amazon.com:
| Vista Version | Regular Price | Upgrade Price |
| Home Basic | $199.00 | $ 99.95 |
| Home Premium | $239.95 | $159.00 |
| Business | $299.99 | $199.95 |
| Ultimate | $399.99 | $259.00 |
Now, I have no idea what the difference is between the versions but still these prices are a bit over-inflated IMHO. Oh and by the way, you will need to have a DVD-ROM or recorder/rewritable drive in order to install Windows Vista.
Now here are the Office 2007 prices as they appear on Amazon.com:
| Office Version | Regular Price | Upgrade Price |
| Office 2007 Home/Student | $149.00 | N/A |
| Office 2007 Small Business | N/A | $279.00 |
| Office 2007 | $399.99 | $239.00 |
| Office 2007 Pro | $499.99 | $329.00 |
| Office 2007 Ultimate (DVD-ROM) | $679.99 | $539.00 |
Again, not sure what the difference is between the versions. But I can make one suggestion, before you shell out $150 to almost $700 for MS Office 2007, take a look at OpenOffice.org. It is Open Source, very much similar to MS Office and best of all….it is FREE!!!
Dude, open office is not comparable at all to office 2007. Have you tried the office 2007 beta?
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The different versions of Office
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX101677751033.aspx
**Standard**
Excel, WOrd, Outlook, PowerPoint(PP)
**Home/Student**
Excel, PP, Word, OneNote
**Small Business**
Accounting Express, Excel, Outlook w/ Business Contact Manager(BCM), PP, Publisher, Word
**Professional Plus**
Access, Communicator, Excel, InfoPath, Outlook, PP, Publisher, Word
**Enterprise**
Access, Communicator, Excel, Groove, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, PP, Publisher, Word
**Ultimate**
Access, Accounting Express, Excel, InfoPath, Groove, OneNote, Outlook w/ BCM, PP, Publisher, Word
With the new Office (the 2007) design, look & feel, Microsoft have made a giant leap. True that it takes time to get use to the new ribbon and to get around quickly.. But once you are familiar with it, you rock!
We do a lot of researches on the web, and using Excel macros,
we have improved our research speed in 30%. That huge!!
Using OneNote have improved our research information control (nothing get lost now) and with the sharing files abilities, now everyone can contribute to the project.
So to summary it all, we are more then happy with the tools that comes in the Office 2007.
We looking forward to the new one… š
The 2007 was a great investment with benefits to us.
Thank you for the interesting post.
Happy to learn new things every day.
Amit