Windows 7 Software Compatibility Testing - Microsoft Office 2007

I would say, with no fear of being wrong, that most people who use or have used a Windows-based computer, either at home or work, have used or currently uses this popular office suite in any of its versions. For those who never heard of it, (if any) I can tell you that I am talking about an extremely popular commercial product that enables users to create, edit, open and save text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases and more. As I did with OpenOffice.org, in this article I am going to tell you how this extremely useful set of tools which is bundled under the name of Microsoft Office 2007 behaves when installed in the Windows 7 environment.

Installation and First Run
I always say that by seeing how the setup process goes you can have an approximated idea of how the program will run once it is fully installed. In this particular case I have to say that the whole process went pretty well, I can only complaint about it taking too long, so, if I paid no regard to this issue (let's assume that mine is not a super fast machine and that copying and configuring over 500MB into my HDD is not a quick task), it went smooth, starting by the extraction of files like this: Read the rest of this entry »