Office Suites

Running Head : SOFTWARE SUITES COMPARISON

Software Suites Comparison : Microsoft Office 2003 and WordPerfect Office 12

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There are differences and similarities between two software suites Microsoft Office 2003 and WordPerfect Office 2003 , which make each one have its advantage over or a supplement of the other . In the absence of product information for WordPerfect Office 2003 Standard Edition , the Small Business Edition will be used but the business solution features of the said would

not be considered . The points for comparison would be their purpose , their content , and the important features

First , the two software products share practically the same purpose The makers of Microsoft Office 2003 and WordPerfect Office 2003 share the same goal of providing people with a user-friendly product which addresses their different computing needs . The bundles they offer are meant to make office tasks easier for people and have expanded to include school-related tasks for students . Likewise , these packages of software have provided users with the ease of installing a single software and getting most of the things they need and thus , would not need other software packages that are sold in separate packages that sometimes do cost a lot

Second , the content of the two packages do not vary much and the labels for such are different . However , the names still carry their purpose For the Microsoft Office 2003 , the contents are MS Excel , MS Word , MS PowerPoint , and MS Outlook ( Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition n .d . On the other hand , the WordPerfect Office 12 contains WordPerfect 12 , Quattro Pro 12 , Presentations 12 , WordPerfect Mail , and Paint Shop Pro 9 ( Introducing WordPerfect Office 12 ' n .d . The counterpart of MS Excel , MS Word , MS PowerPoint , and MS Outlook are Quattro Pro 12 WordPerfect 12 , Presentations 12 , and WordPerfect Mail , respectively The only advantage that WordPerfect 12 has over MS Office 2003 is the availability of Paint Shop Pro 9 . This software is meant for editing photos , graphics , and digital images that users have ( Introducing WordPerfect Office 12 ' n .d

Third , the features of each of the contents also vary but have several similarities that outweigh differences . MS Office boasts of a document recovery feature while WordPerfect is proud of their ability to cater to MS Office documents where they make their software compatible for such ( Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition ' n .d Introducing WordPerfect Office 12 ' n .d . The document recovery feature of MS Office is very much helpful especially for users who does their documents and suddenly encounters software problems that would require them to restart the computer . They do not have to worry about losing their work and starting all over again as the MS Office 2003 software bundle is equipped with autosave feature that enables recovery of documents at the latest autosave point . When the software is opened , the saved will appear and the user can continue working on the project as...