Is Microsoft Office XP a must-have upgrade for smaller businesses? Gregg Keizer analyzes the productivity suite from 4 strategic angles and hands down his verdict.
Small businesses managing their livelihoods with PCs overwhelmingly turn to software suites for the guts of their productivity libraries: word processor and spreadsheet, and to a lesser degree email client, scheduler, and presentation maker.
Microsoft Office has a stranglehold on the suite market, outpacing competitors like Corel WordPerfect Office and Sun's StarOffice by so much that there's really no competition.
Microsoft releases its newest business productivity suite, Office XP, on May 31. How do you know whether the new Office is a must-have upgrade? I've identified four strategic factors that I think should influence your decision about Office XP.
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