Office 2003 pricing leaked

[beer]

Office 2003 Pricing Leaked by Amazon

$1 USD = .63 GBP

Suites
Office 2003 Standard for Students and Teachers £119.99
- includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint (not eligible for future upgrades)
Office 2003 (Standard Edition) £349.99
- includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
Office Small Business Edition £384.99
- includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Publisher
Office 2003 Professional Edition £429.99
- includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher and Access

Suites - Upgrade versions
Office 2003 (Standard Edition) Upgrade £199.99
- includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
Office Small Business Edition Upgrade £234.99
- includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Publisher
Office Professional Edition Upgrade £269.99
- includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher and Access

Standalone products
Excel 2003 £199.99
FrontPage 2003 £179.99
InfoPath 2003 £179.99
OneNote 2003 £169.99
Outlook 2003 £89.99
PowerPoint 2003 £199.99
Project 2003 £484.99
Proofing Tools 2003 £66.99
Publisher 2003 £139.99
Visio Standard Edition 2003 £169.99
Visio Professional Edition 2003 £419.99
Word 2003 £199.99

Standalone products - Upgrade versions
Excel 2003 Upgrade £89.99
FrontPage 2003 Upgrade £89.99
PowerPoint 2003 Upgrade £89.99
Publisher 2003 Upgrade £84.99
Visio Standard Edition 2003 Upgrade £84.99
Visio Professional Edition 2003 Upgrade £209.99
Word 2003 Upgrade £89.99

The pricing on Visio has me really confused. I don't understand by Visio is considered to be so expensive when it is arguable the most basic office application and doesn't do all that much....i mean it's just diagramming. Stuff like Excel and Accesscan be configured to do so much more.

I fail to undertand why MS maintains the market share they do. Corel WordPerfect Office has a more powerful word processor and a spreadsheet that is about 97% as polished as Excel. I haven't used their presentation software though. I really hope OpenOffice starts to have some corporate penetration, but it still is several years behind Corel/MS IMO.

 

[JZilla]

As usual it is way too expensive. My budget for an office suite as a home user is $200. They (MS) should be ashamed of themselves. They ought to sell a home version with Excel, Outlook, and Word for $200. Oh well, I'll just stick with Office 97.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

can't you just buy an upgrade versioin then? and yes, it's way too expensive. openoffice isn't that bad for free though.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

The only things MS turns a profit on are windows and office. Ironically (or not so ironically), those are the two things which are most hastily being replaced. Open Office is already good enough for a lot of things, and Linux is slowly crawling onto the desktop.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
Office 2003 Pricing Leaked by Amazon $1 USD = .63 GBP

Suites Office 2003 Standard for Students and Teachers £119.99 - includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint (not eligible for future upgrades) Office 2003 (Standard Edition) £349.99 - includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint Office Small Business Edition £384.99 - includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Publisher Office 2003 Professional Edition £429.99 - includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher and Access Suites - Upgrade versions Office 2003 (Standard Edition) Upgrade £199.99 - includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint Office Small Business Edition Upgrade £234.99 - includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Publisher Office Professional Edition Upgrade £269.99 - includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher and Access Standalone products Excel 2003 £199.99 FrontPage 2003 £179.99 InfoPath 2003 £179.99 OneNote 2003 £169.99 Outlook 2003 £89.99 PowerPoint 2003 £199.99 Project 2003 £484.99 Proofing Tools 2003 £66.99 Publisher 2003 £139.99 Visio Standard Edition 2003 £169.99 Visio Professional Edition 2003 £419.99 Word 2003 £199.99 Standalone products - Upgrade versions Excel 2003 Upgrade £89.99 FrontPage 2003 Upgrade £89.99 PowerPoint 2003 Upgrade £89.99 Publisher 2003 Upgrade £84.99 Visio Standard Edition 2003 Upgrade £84.99 Visio Professional Edition 2003 Upgrade £209.99 Word 2003 Upgrade £89.99

The pricing on Visio has me really confused. I don't understand by Visio is considered to be so expensive when it is arguable the most basic office application and doesn't do all that much....i mean it's just diagramming. Stuff like Excel and Accesscan be configured to do so much more. I fail to undertand why MS maintains the market share they do. Corel WordPerfect Office has a more powerful word processor and a spreadsheet that is about 97% as polished as Excel. I haven't used their presentation software though. I really hope OpenOffice starts to have some corporate penetration, but it still is several years behind Corel/MS IMO.

Viso can do a lot more than diagramming. Also, I have no worries about the price. I paid $820 USD for a MSDN Universal Subscription and already have the Beta 2 version. I originally bought the subscription because it was about $2000 cheaper than Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect. As it is, I don't do any commercial software development as of now, just testing, so this Subscription has really come in handy.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: JZilla
As usual it is way too expensive. My budget for an office suite as a home user is $200. They (MS) should be ashamed of themselves. They ought to sell a home version with Excel, Outlook, and Word for $200. Oh well, I'll just stick with Office 97.

That's what Microsoft Works Suite is for. It comes with Word and a spreadsheet. It has Contact Management software and you can use Outlook Express for e-mail.

 

[Argo]

Visia is used by software developers (more accurately software architects to diagram software designs). Any programmer working on a more or less serious project had to use it at one point or another.

 

[BFG10K]

I'm happy with Office XP so I'll be sticking with it for a while. I paid full price (academic) for the professional version and it was more than worth it IMO. Also don't forget that OEM Office 2003 will be much cheaper than the prices you listed.

I fail to undertand why MS maintains the market share they do.

Because the competitors are a joke.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Visio is my best friend, well, not really, but I love the program

It is a wee bit buggy and I wish it had a little more flexibility.

Actually, Visio is a little more than a diagramming tool. It can create shell code and database tables. Visio isn't that expensive compared to other (higher-end) tools such as Rational Rose.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Microsoft agrees to remove XP activation, slashes price to bone!

 

[JZilla]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: JZilla
As usual it is way too expensive. My budget for an office suite as a home user is $200. They (MS) should be ashamed of themselves. They ought to sell a home version with Excel, Outlook, and Word for $200. Oh well, I'll just stick with Office 97.

That's what Microsoft Works Suite is for. It comes with Word and a spreadsheet. It has Contact Management software and you can use Outlook Express for e-mail.

I have the Works suite, and while Word is Word, the Works suite itself is pretty crappy. That's why I am using Word XP from the Works suite and then the rest from Office 97, and occasionally OpenOffice. Even the upgrade versions are too expensive imo.

 

[SaigonK]

I will just wait for my Corporate Edition to show up and use it....

 

[BFG10K]

Microsoft agrees to remove XP activation, slashes price to bone!

If true I don't see why Microsoft is kissing the Thai government's ass so much. Piracy is absolutely rampant in that country and the Thai goverment will likely succumb to it as well if they try to sell copies of Linux. And then there's the whole issue of user base - how many people in Thailand can actually afford a PC and Windows/Office for it? Last time I checked, Thailand was a third-world country.

 

[bunker]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

Microsoft agrees to remove XP activation, slashes price to bone!

If true I don't see why Microsoft is kissing the Thai government's ass so much. Piracy is absolutely rampant in that country and the Thai goverment will likely succumb to it as well if they try to sell copies of Linux. And then there's the whole issue of user base - how many people in Thailand can actually afford a PC and Windows/Office for it? Last time I checked, Thailand was a third-world country.

Probably because M$ realizes they can't stop or do anything about the piracy there so they might as well make $36 a copy than nothing at all from the pirated sales.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

Microsoft agrees to remove XP activation, slashes price to bone!

If true I don't see why Microsoft is kissing the Thai government's ass so much. Piracy is absolutely rampant in that country and the Thai goverment will likely succumb to it as well if they try to sell copies of Linux. And then there's the whole issue of user base - how many people in Thailand can actually afford a PC and Windows/Office for it? Last time I checked, Thailand was a third-world country.

Microsoft's sales reps are under orders from billy to not lose a single government contract to Linux, period. I read that in a Register article a few weeks ago, so take it as you see fit.

 

[Nothinman]

If true I don't see why Microsoft is kissing the Thai government's ass so much. Piracy is absolutely rampant in that country and the Thai goverment will likely succumb to it as well if they try to sell copies of Linux. And then there's the whole issue of user base - how many people in Thailand can actually afford a PC and Windows/Office for it? Last time I checked, Thailand was a third-world country.

If the Thai government could get by 100% on non-MS software what's to stop other governments from seeing that and looking into moving away from their extremely expensive MS products? Thailand may be a third world country, but if you lose enough third world country accounts to Linux they start to add up.