I recently purchased a pre-owned laptop that's "Payton Manning" like as far as it being a stop gap until I can afford a new laptop that may stick around longer than I originally planned, or it may not. Too bad the analogy doesn't extend to it not only out performing all of the new models that have hit the market this year, but also out performing any laptop ever made.
It had little more on it than just Windows 8 when I purchased it, so I've been getting by with "Open Office." However, that's just a stripped down freeware version of Office that's badly lacking. So I've now got the money to get MS Office, but there's a lot of options these day & I don't understand what the point of buying programs that seam more redundant than innovative. Those would be pretty much all of the ones in the 2nd column, "Related Products": http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...101825692.aspx
I can see this being like my parents getting over 200 channels on satellite, but only watching few than a dozen. If I had more money than sense, that I could just go a head & buy everything. However, if I did, I'd be evicted from my apartment before the end of the month. Therefore, I need to weigh the usefulness of these products with the cost in order to priorities which products need to be bought in which order & which ones I should never waist my money on. Figuring this out is the main reason for me starting this thread, so I'd appreciate any help on trying to sift through MS propaganda & determine which, if any, of the products would actually be useful to me. I'll use post #2 to bring up other matters least I be accussed of going all "Joel" on all of you.