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Microsoft Products

Microsoft
Windows Vista
Home Basic

SKU: 882224172981
Price: $199.95 (upgrade $99.95)

Description:

Windows Vista Home Basic is the edition of Windows for basic home computing needs. If you only want to use your PC for tasks like browsing the Internet, using e-mail, or viewing photos, then Windows Vista Home Basic may be the right edition for you. While it won't provide as many benefits as Windows Vista Home Premium, it will help you use your PC more easily and more safely than you could with Windows XP.

The first thing you'll notice about Windows Vista Home Basic is how easy it is to find the programs and files you're looking for. The instant desktop search feature looks across all of your documents, e-mails, photos, and other files, organizing the results in the way that you want to view them. When coupled with the built-in web search of Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista, you'll spend less time looking for the things that you need and more time on the activities that you care about.

With automatic defenses against malicious software and fraudulent websites, Windows Vista Home Basic enables you and your family to use your computer with greater confidence. Plus, parents can use built-in controls to help ensure their children's computer use is protected and appropriate.

Windows Vista Home Basic makes it easier than ever to set up your new PC, with features that easily transfer all of your data and settings from your old PC to your new one. What's more, you can have peace of mind for years to come with technology that keeps your system running quickly and reliably over time.

Simply put, Windows Vista Home Basic provides you with just the essentials you need for home computing.

Note: If your system features a 64-bit processor, you can take advantage of its advanced design in this edition of Windows Vista.

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Microsoft
Windows Vista
Home Premium

SKU: 882224172981
Price: $239.95 (upgrade 89.95)

Description:

Windows Vista Home Premium is the edition that delivers more ease of use, security, and entertainment to your PC at home and on the go.

Here it is: the preferred edition of Windows for home desktop and mobile PCs. Windows Vista Home Premium delivers the productivity and entertainment that you need from your PC at home or on the go. It includes Windows Media Center, which helps you more easily enjoy your digital photos, TV, movies, and music. Plus, you'll have the peace of mind of knowing that your PC has a whole new level of security and reliability. All together, Windows Vista Home Premium redefines enjoyment in home computing.

It starts with a breakthrough design that makes your PC easier to use every day. With Windows Aero, you'll experience dynamic reflections, smooth gliding animations, transparent glass-like menu bars, and the ability to switch between your open windows in a new three-dimensional layout. Instant desktop search capabilities, coupled with powerful new ways to organize and visualize your information, means you can instantly find and use the e-mails, documents, photos, music, and the other information you want, when you need it.

Windows Vista Home Premium also helps keep your personal information, your PC, and your family computing experience safer than in previous versions of Windows. For example, Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista includes automated defenses against malicious software and fraudulent websites so you can use your PC online with greater confidence. Windows Vista Home Premium also provides automatic backup of your files, such as your valuable digital photos, music, movies, documents, and other files, so you can relax and focus on the things you care about most. And, by using the built-in parental controls, parents can help ensure their children's computer use is appropriate and safer.

And what about fun? A major advance in Windows Vista Home Premium is the dramatically improved digital entertainment experience. Windows Media Center makes organizing and enjoying photos, music, DVDs, recorded TV, and home movies easier and more fun. Enjoy the entertainment on your PC or even on your TV in the living room with an Xbox 360 wirelessly networked to your PC. Windows Vista Home Premium makes it easier to burn your photo slide shows and home movies to a professional-looking video DVD that your friends and family can watch on a DVD player or PC whenever they like. Combined with unbeatable support for gaming and music, Windows Vista Home Premium delivers a complete home entertainment experience.

If you want a PC that can keep up with you while you're on the go, then you'll appreciate how Windows Vista Home Premium helps you get the most from your mobile PC. It provides simplified power management, easier wireless networking, and streamlined ways to sync with the devices that keep you connected. Because it's incredibly flexible, you can even draw and write by hand on a Tablet PC, and enjoy all of your entertainment through Windows Media Center when you're on the road, in a coffee shop, or relaxing on the couch. Mobile computing has never been like this before.

Finally, Windows Vista Home Premium makes it easier than ever to set up and maintain your new PC. There are new features that make it easier to transfer all of your data and settings from your old PC to your new one and technology that helps keep your system running quickly and reliably over time.

Whether you're balancing your checkbook, studying for school on your mobile PC, watching a downloaded or recorded movie at home, or sharing your favorite photos with friends on a custom DVD, the experience is much better on a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium.

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Microsoft
Windows Vista
Business

SKU: 882224172332
Price: $299.95

Description:

The definitive choice for your business–today and tomorrow

Windows Vista Business is the first Windows operating system designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses. You'll empower your entire business to work more efficiently with a stunning and improved, simple-to-use interface that makes it easier to search and find the information you need quickly and easily, both on your PCs and on the web. With powerful new safety features, you're in control and can better protect the key information that is the life of your business and that builds the trust of your customers.

And, for the growing business that always seems to be on the go, the mobile computing enhancements make it easier to stay connected to the rhythm of your business, both in and out of the office. Windows Vista Business makes all of this work for you while helping you spend less time on technology support#8211;related issues#8211;so you can spend more time making your business successful. Windows Vista Business simply makes it easier to manage how your employees connect to your network and to ensure that they get more out of their PCs, both in and out of the office. Be future-ready and lay the IT foundation that your business needs for today and tomorrow.

Note: If your system features a 64-bit processor, you can take advantage of its advanced design in this edition of Windows Vista

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Microsoft
Office Standard 2007
(Academic)

SKU:882224150873
Price:$139.95

Description:

Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is the essential software suite for homes and small businesses that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and manage e-mail. The latest release features the new Microsoft Office Fluent user interface that exposes commonly used and familiar commands, enhanced graphics and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents, new time management tools to help manage your schedule, and more reliability and security such as an improved junk e-mail filter to reduce spam e-mail. With these enhancements, Office Standard 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done at home or work.

Features:

• Create high-quality documents — Office Standard 2007 has new graphics capabilities, formatting galleries, and the new Office Fluent user interface that exposes commonly used commands, making it even easier for you to produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of.

  New features and improvements include:

  • The results-oriented Office Fluent user interface makes it easier to find and use product features.
  • More stable bullets and numbering to help you consistently format documents.
  • Enhanced text effects, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries that provide more formatting choices.
  • Document Themes that help you create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs.

  Microsoft Office Word 2007 features new context-sensitive command tabs and easy-to-use galleries that make it simple for you to include tables and other graphics in your documents

• Work with enhanced reliability and security features — With an improved junk e-mail filter and anti-phishing tools, automatic document recovery, and Document Inspector for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Office Standard 2007 enables you to work with more confidence and security.

  New features and improvements include:

  • A junk e-mail filter that helps significantly reduce spam e-mail messages.
  • Anti-phishing tools that alert users to suspicious and potentially fraudulent e-mail messages.
  • Automatic document recovery tool that helps retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system stops responding.
  • Document Inspector that detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents.

  Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 handles suspicious e-mail messages designed to steal your identity – a process known as "phishing" – by displaying a warning across the top of the message and disabling any contained hyperlinks.

• Find commands and help with ease — Office Standard 2007 has the Office Fluent user interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions, so you can quickly learn about the programs and find answers to your questions.
  • Command tabs on the Ribbon that display commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus.
  • An improved Help system that offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more informative enhanced ScreenTips provide help about commands.
  • Command tabs that are context-sensitive and change automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
  • Online tutorials that provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.

  In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, the new user interface is organized into logical command tabs. The new Ribbon brings to the surface common commands that were previously buried in drop-down menus

• Organize your time and communications — Office Standard 2007 includes Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, which is now an even more complete and easy-to-use e-mail and appointment manager, leaving you more time to do the things you want to do. You can quickly search throughout your e-mail, share your calendar with the people you care about, and get the latest news from your favorite Web sites using Really Simple Syndication (RSS).

  New features and improvements include:

  • Instant Search that helps you quickly find information in any of the Outlook modules such as e-mail, calendar, and contacts.
  • A To-Do Bar that brings together tasks, appointments, and flagged e-mail messages in one place.
  • Color Categories that help you quickly differentiate e-mail messages.
  • An RSS aggregator that offers you the opportunity to subscribe to and read Web content in Office Outlook 2007. (A separate fee-based RSS subscription is required.)

  Office Outlook 2007 includes Instant Search to quickly locate information in any of the Outlook modules. Office Outlook 2007 finds the related entries and highlights them as shown.

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Microsoft
Office Professional 2007
(Academic)

SKU: 882224263627
Price: $199.95

Description:

Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is a complete suite of productivity and database software that will help you save time and stay organized. Powerful contact management features help you manage all customer and prospect information in one place. Develop professional marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web, and produce effective marketing campaigns in-house. Create dynamic business documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and build databases with no prior experience or technical staff. You will learn new features rapidly using improved menus that present the right tools when you need them.

Features:

Work more efficiently and effectively — New tools help you work faster and create more professional documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Office Professional 2007 helps you quickly accomplish routine tasks so you can spend more time with your customers. New task-based menus and toolbars automatically display the commands and options you can use, making it faster and easier to find the software features you need. And the new Live Preview feature makes it easy to sample your changes before you apply them. Office Professional 2007 helps you:

• Spend less time learning new software with improved menus and commands that present the tools you need when you need them.
• Find what you need faster and more easily using Instant Search.
• Protect yourself with improved junk mail and anti-phishing filters.
• Produce professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that are publication-ready without spending hours on formatting and refinements.
• Schedule tasks in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that also will appear on your calendar.
• Use the new Office Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar that presents a consolidated view of tasks, calendar information, and e-mail messages flagged for follow up.
• Use new templates and tools in Microsoft Office Word 2007 that make it easier to reuse content, apply professional formatting, and quickly preview changes.
• Use new tools in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for filtering, sorting, and visualizing information to help you analyze business data more effectively.

Manage all your customer and contact information in one place — Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager offers powerful customer and contact management. Now you can collect and control all of your customer information and communications in one place so you can stay organized and respond quickly to customers. Powerful tools simplify contact management so you can easily track, prioritize, and manage customer and contact information throughout the sales process – all within the familiar Office Outlook 2007 environment. You also can track and manage project tasks and assign tasks to coworkers. With Office Professional 2007, you can:

• Centralize all contact, prospect, and customer information — including communications history, projected sales value, probability of closing, and tasks — using Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
• Record all types of communications with each customer in one place — including e-mail, phone calls, appointments, notes, and documents.
• Forecast sales and prioritize tasks using the customizable dashboard in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.
• Work offline on your laptop or Pocket PC and then synchronize data when you return to the office.
• Track project related information in one place – including e-mail, meetings, notes, tasks, and documents – and easily assign leads, contacts, customers, and tasks to others using Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.

Create professional marketing materials and campaigns in-house — Create and distribute professional and compelling marketing materials and campaigns entirely in-house with Office Professional 2007. Create designer-quality marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web using Office Publisher 2007. Use Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager and Office Publisher 2007 together to track and manage marketing campaign activities such as compiling mailing lists, distributing materials, and tracking results. You also can use the library of customizable templates in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create professional-looking presentations. Office Professional 2007 enables you to:

• Create and publish a wide range of marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web with your own brand elements including logo, colors, fonts, and business information using Office Publisher 2007.
• Use hundreds of professionally designed and customizable templates, and more than 100 blank publication types provided by Office Publisher 2007.
• Reuse text, graphics, and design elements, and convert content from one publication type to another with Office Publisher 2007.
• Use Office Publisher 2007 to combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources — including Office Excel 2007, Office Outlook 2007, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, and Microsoft Office Access 2007 — to create personalized print and e-mail materials, and build custom collateral such as catalogs and datasheets.
• Create, manage, and track marketing campaigns using Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.
• Create more dynamic presentations from an extensive library of customizable themes and slide layouts using Office PowerPoint 2007.
• Create powerful charts, SmartArt diagrams, and tables, and then quickly preview formatting changes using the new graphics tools in Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, and Office PowerPoint 2007.

Find, use, and manage information more effectively — Manage business information with new tools for easily creating databases and organizing and visualizing information. Using Office Professional 2007, you can easily create databases from scratch and generate reports – with no technology background required. Predefined database templates and an intuitive interface in Office Access 2007 help you quickly and easily manage business information. That information can be filtered, sorted, and displayed in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for easier analysis. Office Professional 2007 helps you:

• Create databases, even if you have no prior experience using Office Access 2007.
• Use a library of predefined database tracking applications for the most common business processes that are included with Office Access 2007.
• Manage Office Access 2007 databases more intuitively using the new Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and the new datasheet view, which is similar to Excel.
• Create reports in Office Access 2007 with a single click, and use improved tools to filter, sort, group, and subtotal data.
• Filter, sort, graph, and visualize information in Office Excel 2007 using new tools to analyze business information more easily.
• Summarize information and find the answers you need using PivotTable and PivotChart views that are now much easier to create using Office Excel 2007.

This professional edition includes:

• Access 2007
• Accounting Express 2007
• Excel 2007
• Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
• PowerPoint 2007
• Publisher 2007
• Word 2007

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Microsoft Office
Publisher 2007

SKU: 882224151696
Price: $99.95

Description:

Publisher 2007 brings together new and improved tools to help you efficiently create, customize, and reuse a wide variety of page layout publications and marketing materials tailored to your company’s specific needs.

Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 helps you create, personalize, and share a wide range of publications and marketing materials in-house. New and improved capabilities guide you through the process of creating and distributing in print, Web, and e-mail so you can build your brand, manage customer lists, and track your marketing campaigns — all in-house.

Features:

Create high-quality publications that reflect your brand identity — Office Publisher 2007 includes new and improved tools that help you efficiently create, customize, and reuse a wide variety of marketing communications materials that are tailored to your company's specific needs.

• Get started quickly by choosing from a library of hundreds of customizable design templates or blank publications, including newsletters, brochures, flyers, postcards, Web sites, e-mail formats, and more.
• Create a business identity for all your business and personal needs that includes your company name, contact information, and logo.
• Get dynamic previews of Office Publisher 2007 templates with your brand elements applied — including your colors, fonts, logo, and business information — before choosing a template.
• Use the new Search tool to quickly locate and preview high-quality Office Publisher 2007 templates from Microsoft Office Online right within the Publisher Catalog.
• Categorize, preview, open, and save your templates efficiently within My Templates for fast retrieval.
• Save time and effort by storing frequently used text, design elements, and graphics in the new Content Store to use in other publications.
• Reuse content for other publication types and distribution methods. For example, easily place content from a multipage newsletter into an e-mail template or Web layout for online distribution.
• Choose from more than 70 designer-created color schemes, or create one of your own. If you're using Pantone colors, choose them within Office Publisher 2007.
• Use Publisher Tasks to get help with common Office Publisher 2007 procedures, such as inserting images, creating a mail merge, or reusing content.
• Use the enhanced Catalog Merge to produce frequently updated materials such as datasheets, catalogs, or price lists by merging text and images from a database.
• Customize your publications using a collection of intuitive design, layout, typography, and graphics tools.
• Run the enhanced Design Checker to identify and fix common design errors in commercial print, Web, and e-mail publications prior to distributing or printing.

Personalize your publications and marketing materials — Office Publisher 2007 includes new E-mail Merge capabilities, enhanced Mail Merge, and Catalog Merge, making it easier than ever to send personalized e-mail and print marketing communication materials. Create custom publications and fine-tune them using intuitive design tools and your own creativity for truly unique materials.

• Combine and edit mailing lists within Publisher from multiple sources, including Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Access, and more. Use the list to create personalized e-mail and print communications or mailing labels, or to build custom collateral such as catalogs and flyers.
• Use new E-mail Merge and e-mail templates to create personalized e-mail marketing communications.
• Personalize your print publications with enhanced Mail Merge.
• Use Personalized Hyperlinks to personalize the display text and destination of a hyperlink within an E-mail Merge.
• Improved integration with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager (available in Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 and Microsoft Office Professional 2007) enables you to initiate and track the distribution of marketing materials created in Publisher.

Share, print, and publish with ease — Office Publisher 2007 provides new and improved ways for you to share, print, and publish your materials with ease.

• Save Office Publisher 2007 files in a fixed file format, such as Portable Document Format (PDF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS), for easy sharing. PDF settings within Office Publisher 2007 include options for online viewing, desktop printing, and commercial printing.
• Take advantage of full commercial printing support for large quantities and high-quality printing. Office Publisher 2007 includes four-color process printing, spot color printing, cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK) composite postscript, and more. Use the improved Pack and Go Wizard to prepare your Office Publisher 2007 files, including a press-ready PDF file, for a commercial printer.
• Send e-mail publications that appear as you intended. Improvements in e-mail distribution and viewing, including support for sending multipage publications as a single-page message, make it easier than ever to create and send publications as e-mail messages.
• Convert publications for viewing on the Web, and easily add navigation, update, edit, and post.
• Identify and correct unintended desktop, commercial print, Web, and e-mail problems using the improved Design Checker.

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Microsoft Office
Visio 2007
(Standard/Professional)

SKU:882224152099 (S.)           882224151986 (P.)
Price:$79.95 (S.)
          $149.95 (P.)
         

Description:

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Go from complicated text and tables that are hard to understand to Visio diagrams that communicate information at a glance. Instead of static pictures, create data-connected Visio diagrams that display data, are easy to refresh, and dramatically increase your productivity. Use the wide variety of diagrams in Office Visio 2007 to understand, act on, and share information about organizational systems, resources, and processes throughout your enterprise.

Office Visio 2007 is available in two stand-alone editions: Office Visio Professional and Office Visio Standard. Office Visio Standard 2007 has the same basic functionality as Visio Professional 2007 and includes a subset of its features and templates. Office Visio Professional 2007 offers advanced functionality, such as data connectivity and visualization features, that Office Visio Standard 2007 does not.

Features:

Visualize complex information to better understand it — Office Visio 2007 provides a wide range of templates — business process flowcharts, network diagrams, workflow diagrams, database models, and software diagrams — you can use to visualize and streamline business processes, track projects and resources, chart organizations, map networks, diagram building sites, and optimize systems.

Use the wide range of diagram types in Office Visio 2007 to better understand complex processes, resources, and systems

• Get started quickly with templates. Office Visio 2007 includes specific tools to support the diverse diagramming needs of IT and business professionals. Create a broader range of diagrams with new templates, such as the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) template and the Value Stream Mapping template in Office Visio Professional 2007. Use the predefined Microsoft SmartShapes symbols and powerful search capabilities to locate the right shape, whether it is saved on a computer or on the Web.
• Quickly access templates you use often. In the new Getting Started window, find the template you need by browsing simplified template categories and using large template previews. Locate the templates you used recently by using the new Recent Templates view in the Getting Started window.
• Get inspired by sample diagrams. Find new sample diagrams more easily by opening the new Getting Started window and using the new Samples category in Office Visio Professional 2007. View sample diagrams that are integrated with data to get ideas for creating your own diagrams, to realize how data provides more context for many diagram types, and to determine which template you want to use.
• Connect shapes without drawing connectors. New AutoConnect functionality in Office Visio 2007 connects shapes, distributes them evenly, and aligns them for you – with only one click. When you move the connected shapes, they stay connected and the connectors automatically reroute between the shapes.

Explore information to identify trends and issues and act on them — Using Office Visio Professional 2007, make your diagrams even smarter by linking them to data to provide a more complete picture of a process, project, or system. Visually explore information to identify key trends, issues, and exceptions, and then act on them. Analyze, drill down into, and create multiple views of business data to gain insight.

• Easily connect data to diagrams and link data to shapes.Automatically connect diagrams to one or more data sources, such as Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets or Microsoft Office Access 2007 databases, by using the new Data Link functionality in Office Visio Professional 2007. Save time associating data with shapes by using intuitive new linking methods, which populate each shapes properties (also known as shape data) with data values. For example, link all the shapes in a diagram to rows of data from connected data sources by using the new Automatic Link Wizard.
• Display data attractively in diagrams. Easily display data associated with shapes in attractive ways by using the new Data Graphics feature in Office Visio Professional 2007 to choose from a number of data formatting options. With a single click, display data fields as callouts next to a shape, position fields in boxes below a shape, and place fields of data directly on top or to the side of a shape.
• Easily refresh data in diagrams. The new Refresh Data feature in Office Visio Professional 2007 automatically refreshes all the data in your diagrams so that you don’t have to do it manually. If data conflicts arise, easily resolve them by using the Refresh Conflicts task pane, also included with Office Visio Professional 2007.
• Visualize business data. Visually explore business data that's normally shown in static text and tables by using PivotDiagrams. Create different views of the same data to more fully understand the issues.
• Visually report on project information. Office Visio 2007 is an indispensable tool for visualizing complex project information. Easily generate reports directly from within Microsoft Office Project and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server that track project tasks, owners, roles, responsibilities, and depict complex project ownership structures. Automatically modify the reports as project information changes.

Communicate using diagrams that can be shared with a broad audience — Communicate information using Visio diagrams to maximize its impact in ways words and numbers alone cannot. Then share your professional-looking Visio diagrams with others, even those who don’t have Visio.

Communicate more effectively and in more ways to reach broader audiences by using new and improved features in Office Visio 2007:

• Design professional-looking diagrams.The new Theme feature in Office Visio 2007 makes it easy to format the colors and effects (text, line, fill, shadow, and connector formatting) in an entire diagram with a single click. Office Visio 2007 even uses the same color palette as other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs so that you can easily design professional-looking Visio diagrams that match your presentations and documents. Create more dynamic workflows with new 3-D Workflow shapes, which were designed with the new Theme feature in mind.
• Reach broader audiences. Save Visio diagrams in PDF or XPS file format to make them more portable and to reach broader audiences. View Visio diagram attachments from within Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
• Integrate diagrams into other Microsoft Office applications. Import Visio diagrams into your Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations and Microsoft Office Word documents. Share business and process information as Visio diagrams and image files, so your audience can understand complex business processes at a glance in a consistent way.
• Collaborate with colleagues on the same diagram. With the Track Markup feature, multiple people can collaborate on the same Visio diagram. Generally used for reviewing a diagram and incorporating feedback, Track Markup helps make each reviewer’s contributions clear to other reviewers and to the person who eventually incorporates the revisions in the diagram. If you’re using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, easily check diagrams in and out directly from Office Visio.
• Convert diagrams to multiple formats and share with others. Make your diagrams available to all people in your organization by saving them as Web pages complete with navigation controls, a shape data viewer, reports, choice of image format, and style sheet options. Post diagrams to your organization’s intranet or extranet where anyone who’s using Visio Viewer with Windows Internet Explorer can view the diagrams from within Internet Explorer.2 Save Visio diagrams in PDF or XPS file format to make them more portable and to reach additional audiences.
• Collaborate using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Shared workspace functionality supports collaboration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Visio diagrams saved on a Windows SharePoint Services sites can be opened directly in Office Visio 2007 from the site, and even checked in and out from within Office Visio 2007. When a diagram is opened from a Windows SharePoint Services site, Office Visio 2007 opens a Shared Workspace task pane that contains all of the information in the workspace, including other files, members, tasks, and links.

Customize and extend Office Visio 2007 programmatically to fit customized needs — Extend Office Visio 2007 programmatically or by integrating it with other applications to fit your industry-specific scenarios. Develop your own custom data-connected solutions and shapes, or use those from Visio Solution Providers. Customize and extend Office Visio 2007 programmatically by using new and improved features:

• Plan, analyze, and visualize your custom solutions. Visualize custom solutions with Office Visio 2007 diagrams, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), data flow, and Microsoft Windows user interface diagrams, by using templates in the Software and Database category of Office Visio Professional 2007.
• Build powerful custom solutions. The Office Visio 2007 software development kit (SDK) can help new and existing Visio developers build programs with Office Visio 2007. The SDK includes extensive samples, tools, and documentation to simplify and speed up development of custom applications. The SDK provides a set of reusable functions, classes, and procedures for the most common Office Visio 2007 development tasks and includes support for a broad range of development languages, including Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, and Microsoft Visual C++.
• Add Visio diagramming functionality to any context or program.With Office Visio 2007 and the Visio Drawing Control, create custom data-connected solutions that make it easy to connect to and display data in any context. Using the Visio Drawing Control, developers can embed and program the Visio drawing environment in custom applications. It opens up new opportunities for solution integration, making it easy to include the power of Office Visio 2007 in any smart client application. Because the Visio Drawing Control can be integrated with the host application’s UI, developers can take advantage of Visio drawing functionality as a smooth part of their application without having to develop similar functionality themselves.
• Take advantage of new data-driven solution support and new features in Office Visio 2007. You can control several new features in Microsoft Office Visio 2007 programmatically, including connecting to a data source, linking shapes to data, displaying linked data graphically, connecting shapes to one another automatically (AutoConnect), monitoring and filtering mouse-drag actions, and applying theme colors and theme effects. Each of these features has an associated application programming interface (API) that makes it possible to control the feature programmatically and new objects and members associated with it in the Visio object model. You can find more information about new developer-related features in Office Visio 2007 on MSDN and in the Office Visio 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK).

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Microsoft Office
Project Standard 2007
(Academic)

SKU: 882224151511
Price: $69.95

Description:

Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively. You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances, keep project teams aligned, and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting, guided planning, and flexible tools.

Features:

Understand and control project schedules and finances — Effectively track and analyze projects with a better understanding of the schedule and impact of changes. Benefit from better financial control and richer analytics.

• New! Trace the source of issues. Quickly determine factors that are affecting task dates and easily trace the source of issues to promote accountability. Task Drivers help you determine the factor (such as task dependency, calendar constraints, schedule date, or vacation time) driving the start date of the task, so you can follow a chain of factors back to find the root cause of a particular delay.
• New! See the impacts of a change. Office Project 2007 will automatically highlight all items that shift as a result of the most recent change you make. Now, with Change Highlights you gain a better understanding of the impacts of your choices.
• New! Experiment with what-if scenarios. Undo and redo changes to views, data, and options with Multiple Level Undo. You can undo actions or sets of actions from macros too, so you can test several what-if scenarios in order to fully understand the implications of each choice while making scope changes.
• New! Easily control finances.With the budget field, you can assign budgets to projects and programs. The new “Cost”resource type improves cost estimation and tracking. Other cost enhancements include more predefined fields, such as cost code, that map to financial fields tracked in project accounting systems.
• Enhanced! Flexible project tracking and analysis. Compute and track core metrics unique to your project by defining custom fields based on your formulas. Graphical indicators can alert you when specific conditions are met.

Effectively communicate and present project information — Improve the organization of your projects and people with the scheduling power and capabilities of Office Project Standard 2007. Easily report and communicate information in various formats according to the needs of stakeholders.

• New! Leverage charts and diagrams.The Visual Reports feature uses Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Visio Professional to produce PivotTable views, charts, graphs, and diagrams based on Project data. A user can easily define custom report templates and share these with other Project users.
• New! Add visual highlights.You can change the background color of a cell or row with Background Cell Highlighting. Shade cells, similar to how you can in Excel, in order to convey additional meaning.
• Enhanced! Use improved views. With new enhancements to the Calendar interface and the addition of 3-D Gantt bars, you can create even more visually effective reports.
• Enhanced! Share information. Share and manage documents related to your projects using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services workspaces (requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later), which are integrated into the Tasks pane of the Project Guide.

Get productive quickly — Office Project 2007 helps you better organize work and people to help ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

• Enhanced! Follow the Project Guide. Quickly master the project management process with the Project Guide, a step-by-step, interactive aid that helps you set up projects, manage tasks and resources, track status, and report project information.
• Enhanced! Get help as you need it. Access built-in online Help to get the latest training, articles, templates, and resources. Get timely and relevant assistance as you work with smart tags that alert you to alternatives when you make changes to your plan.
• Enhanced! Save time with templates. Start your projects prepopulated with a template to save time. Create your own custom template, or use one of the many new, out-of-the-box templates provided with Office Project Standard 2007. You can also download templates from the Web at Microsoft Office Online.

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Microsoft
Home & Student 2007

SKU: 882224165242
Price: $149.95

Description:

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is the essential software suite for home computer users that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and organize your notes and information in one place, making it easier and more enjoyable for you to get things done. The latest version features the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface that exposes commonly used commands, enhanced graphics, and formatting capabilities that enable you to create high-quality documents, plus a powerful note and information organization tool, and more reliability and security with the Document Inspector tool and improved automatic document recovery. With these enhancements, Office Home and Student 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get tasks done at home.

Features:

Create high-quality documents — Office Home and Student 2007 has new graphics, formatting galleries, and the Office Fluent user interface that exposes commonly used commands. These features enable you to easily produce high-quality documents that you can be proud of.

New features and improvements include:

• Results-oriented Office Fluent user interface makes it easier for you to find and use product features.
• More stable bullets and numbers help you to consistently format documents.
• Enhanced text effects, SmartArt diagrams, and graphics and charting galleries provide you with more formatting choices.
• Themes create a consistent appearance across Microsoft Office system programs.

Work with enhanced reliability and security features — With an improved automatic document recovery tool and the new Document Inspector tool for removing personally identifiable information from your documents, Office Home and Student 2007 helps you work with more confidence and security.

New features and improvements include:

• Document recovery tool helps you retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system failure.
• Document Inspector detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents.

Find commands and help with ease — Office Home and Student 2007 has the Office Fluent user interface and an enhanced Help system, including online tutorials with step-by-step instructions. With these features, you can quickly learn the product and find the answers to your questions.

New features and improvements include:

• Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon reveal commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus.
• The Help system offers a smooth transition between the Help menu in the Microsoft Office system and Help on the Internet (when connected). Larger, more informative Enhanced ScreenTips provide help about commands.
• Command tabs are context-sensitive, changing automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
• Online tutorials provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.

Organize your notes and information

New features and improvements include:

• Gather many different kinds of information — typed text, images, audio and video recordings, digital handwritten notes, Web clippings, and more — on the same page!
• Provides flexible note-taking tools to help you organize information the way you want. Categorize important projects or information in a way that makes sense to you, using an easy-to-use layout of notebooks, sections, and pages. Type or organize content anywhere on the page and track important items with customizable note tags.
• The powerful Instant Search feature of Office OneNote 2007 helps you to find information you are looking for quickly. With it you can even search handwritten notes, the text in images and scanned documents, and spoken words in audio recordings.

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Microsoft
Visual Studio Pro 2007

SKU: 882224258579
Price: $129.00

Description:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2007 Professional Edition is a complete environment for individual developers building Microsoft Windows, Web, or mobile solutions.

Features:

Build high-performance solutions faster than ever.

• Easily create and deploy client applications. Automatically publish and maintain applications and their dependencies with integrated ClickOnce support.
• Build fast, interactive Web applications. Take advantage of more than 50 new controls and hundreds of built-in services for site security, personalization, look and feel, and more.
• Develop faster with enhanced visual designers and editors. Streamline development of all tiers of your application and improve XML editing and XSLT debugging with intuitive visual designers.
• Create dynamic, data-enabled applications. Quickly create data-driven applications using an integrated data access, design, and reporting environment.

Take advantage of a powerful, enterprise-class application platform.

• Tackle any development task. Create robust applications using the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and native code–all supported by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
• Target high-performance computing architectures. Easily develop for 64-bit systems using a 64-bit version of the .NET Framework.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Includes:

• Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual
• C++, and Microsoft Visual J# programming languages
• Tools for building Windows and Web solutions
• SmartPhone and Pocket PC development tools for building Windows
• CE–based applications
• Visual Database Tools
• XSD and XSLT editing and debugging
• Advanced debugging tools, including cross-machine debugging
• Visual Basic and Visual C# development of stored procedures, functions, and triggers when combined with SQL ServerTM 2005 Tools for building server-based solutions

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Note:

The above product descriptions and summaries are from the Microsoft Products website.