Purchase of a product key card for Microsoft Office 2010 saved me a substantial amount of money, given that I needed only one license. (The CDROM product provides licenses for installation on two computers, e.g., a purchaser's desktop and laptop.)
Office 2010 was not preloaded on my target computer, so I downloaded the software from the web site named in the key card instructions. To get the download, you must enter the product key, which is case sensitive. (You must use caps for the letters in the key.) The web site gives you the option of purchasing a backup CDROM if you're a nervous nellie like me. The web site also gives clear instructions on how to proceed after the download.
The software download (585MB) took about two hours with a relatively slow DSL connection. Installing the software requires the product key to be entered for a second time (include the hyphens). The installation itself took about 15 minutes on a 1.67 GHz netbook, which had a trial version of Microsoft Office 2007 installed that needed to be removed. (The installation screen gave the option of removing a previous Office installation or leaving all or parts of a previous installation on the computer.)
As often happens with Microsoft products, the "installation progress bar" finished a few minutes before the installation itself was finished. The product then required a reboot to finalize the installation. For me, the only really anxious moments involved in the entire operation were the moments spent waiting and watching the screen while the computer was verifying the legitimacy of the product key. Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Product Key Card
I've had this 6 months...it's awful. It's like they fired the orignal developers of Office and said...here start new. The there is no continuity from an older version and this has decreased my ability to be productive...odd a it is supposed to be productivity software. I can't find much and have gone over to my old computer and old version of Office just to do quick things.
In a nutshell...don't upgrade unless you have to.
I bought this version of Office about a month ago because I needed to learn and start using Access. So far I am pleased with the software and am quite impressed by Access. What I am not impressed with is the extreme overpricing of this, and all Microsoft products by a behemoth software monopoly whose wealth is more than that of some countries. This is not the only, reason that Office 2000 was the last version of Office I've purchased until now. Overpricing and the ridiculously restrictive licensing and activation foolishness that's grown like a cancer in all Microsoft software products over the past decade, as well as most other software companies commercial software these days, make me glad that, with any luck, Ill be retired before having to purchase another version of Office. The product is good, but not worth the price. Shame on you Microsoft.
There is no reason for Microsoft to charge so much for there software. It does work good, but I hate to pay full price for anything. You can find it way cheaper on Google if you search "wholesale software provider" There is no point in paying anymore than you have to.
Shipped and received quickly. Installed without any complications. Love the interface improvements which mostly make existing Office capabilities simpler. Seems pretty expensive for what should have been a more modest upgrade price.
This product is an easy way to activate MS Office on a new computer. We had purchased a new computer from the local Costco for our small retail shop, and this product key card enabled us to activate the pre-installed MS Office suite. It took a lot less time than installing from CDs.
I've used this product (MS OP 2010) for over 30 days, on the heels of close to a year using IBM Lotus Symphony, (which has only 3 parts- word, spreadsheet, presentations) a totally free version of office suites, (based on Open Office, but vastly improved over OO), thus lacking in some utility, with only three of the segments of suites. For me, it is fascinating to compare the two. Both are sophisticated in presentation and function, generally. No comparison to Open Office, in sophistication and ease and especially speed of use. However, while I needed the multiple suites, Publisher, Power Point, Access, I am surprised at the lack of any superior speed (over Lotus Symphony) in the basic suites, the bulkiness, of Word, and while the IBM version lacked some robustness, and stability, which MS has more of, for all the high cost of the MS 2010, I felt it overpriced, in value, by at least double. Not an Amazon issue on price, but an MS issue. It is worth something over the Lotus Symphony, but not the premium prices MS currently charges, even the price for just one computer. Reality says, pay the piper. I did, and I'm only just mildly satisfied (and not impressed, at all) at improvements over Office Pro 2003, or so. Amazon is great, but I consider MS overpriced, by MS.
I believe more competition is needed in this market, perhaps IBM can show the way with further improvements. I am not a fan of Google office suite entries (although I love some of their products, especially Earth and sky, and Picasa, which are superb, and Google Talk, which is ok, (Skype superb)), nor cloud based systems of suites, since they are dependent on connections, for speeds, which will be highly and unacceptably variable for at least 5 years, throughout America and the world, can't work offline as well, and tend to a somewhat different look and feel, than Lotus and MS. And security, well, there is no security that is perfect and absolute, and cloud security has a ways to go.
Overall, there is tremendous room for growth, in most areas of IT, including office suites applications, and one product I'd like to see, is a way to have quick, accurate, and versatile speech translations that work, between two different language speaking nationalities, so one can carry on a two way speaking connection by computer based VOIP. I'd like to see accurate, dependable and versatile speech recognition to text applications, many do not even work well on quality telephone connections, let alone on speech to word computer applications. And my own speech is metered and un-accented, pure Midwest style, spoken with clear annunciation, as some people have exclaimed, like sounding like a TV news anchor, and saw major failure years ago of the over hyped speech recognition apps. - Microsoft Office 2010 - Excel - Microsoft - Microsoft Office'
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