Applications > Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 Service Pack 5 or later Applications

Advantages: Can be put to many uses
Disadvantages: Very few...price?

Microsoft Excel is a great application is mainly used for entering numerical data and working with this data to find totals. This is the very basics behind Excel, but it can be used in a lots of others ways too. It is a very advanced program and I wouldn't be able to review everything, but I can outline what I do with it and hopefully it will match you're needs. Microsoft Excel 97 is usually found as part of the Microsoft Office 97 package, but ...
...is well worth the money. Microsoft is a giant in software development, and this is one of their greatest ideas. Microsoft Excel 97 is the first massive step in the way that Microsoft designed spreadsheet applications and the basis of this version is echoed in later versions. And being such a well known and well used piece of software, the available guides, books and online communities are very helpful and whenever you come stuck on a particular ... Read review

Advantages: Quick, Easy, Professional Results.
Disadvantages: "The MicroSoft Factor"

...do I mean by “The Microsoft Factor”? Well, it is a very affectionate term used by myself and others around me in the same line of work. Basically, anyone who has worked with Microsoft applications will at one time or other probably encountered an error message of this form (but not in these exact words): “This application has performed a random error. This application cannot work out what caused the error (or isn’t going to ...
...case of Visual BASIC because Microsoft have excelled themselves in this area and have created a beautiful piece of software. I’m going to now use the next few lines to explain why this is, and hopefully explain why you would want to buy this software. OK, without further ado, I will start the review before you all get bored. Firstly a little history of me and programming languages – I promise it is all relevant! I have been programming ... Read review

Advantages: Great price compared to others, vast amount of tools, seemless editing
Disadvantages: Adds noise involuntarily

...thought I would go buy Corel Paint Shop Pro X2. I paid about £25 for it in total to be shipped from america on ebay. Not bad, considering that other places and shops were selling it for anything up to £40. I was expecting the CD to come in a plastic DVD case meaning there would be room for an instruction manual. It actually came in a cardboard tyvek sleeve thing, meaning no instruction manual or tips and tricks. The back of the sleeve just stated ...
...a little bit on system requirements. When loading the CD, the menu comes up asking if you want to download the program, a 'videostudio 11 trial' or some sample filters, which is pretty generous. Fortunately there is also an option to view the user guide on this menu, which makes up for the lack of instruction manual. The instalation of the program itself is pretty tedious, it slows up everything else youre doing and takes about 5 minutes on my ... Read review

Advantages: Free, versatile, suits home networks, not just a firewall
Disadvantages: Slightly more hands-on than some would like

...'Comodo' kept cropping up. Comodo Firewall Pro, despite the name, is free with a lifetime licence. It comes as part of a whole range of security software, including anti-virus, anti-malware (that's spyware sent by someone called Malcolm), web-site authentication, and e-mail security, all free. I haven't ventured past the firewall yet on my main PC, since I'm quite happy to stick with the AVG 8.0 free anti-virus software until someone can give me ...
...duration, until prompted by the Comodo install process' need to contact the internet. Installation went smoothly with very little input from the user. Initially, this can take a long time, around 50 minutes in my case as it respectfully suggests that you have your PC scanned for potential threats. 110,000 files later……. For those with a single machine, that's really all there is to it. True, you CAN put the software into a 'learning mode' whilst ... Read review

Advantages: Norton Internet Security 2008 offers solid protection for your desktop
Disadvantages: The way that it slows your PC down to a snails pace

...the average users experience within Norton Internet Security 2008 could be greatly improved. Not all the features work together, and the program could use fewer system resources. And paying to call support is not really playing fair on their part, as the software is not free in the first place. Specs: License qty: 3 users; License type: Complete package; Min Operating system: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Microsoft Windows XP Professional ... Read review