Word 2007 Home and Student

Pros: Interesting looking and has some nice features.

Cons: Bloated, gratuitously (and not functionally) complicated. Much too much for most daily word processing tasks.

The Bottom Line: More bloatware from Redmond. Word XP and 2003 - even 2000 - are entirely adequate and much more user friendly.

Review: There was a time when Microsoft Office Word's most recent incarnation was held as the Gold Standard of word-processing programs by most casual- and many professional-computer users. This "article of faith" was so ubiquitous that the pre-installed ...