This is a media-less (no CD or DVD included) license that contains a specific product key for a single installation of MS Office Basic. It allows for unlocking Microsoft Office Basic 2007 and is often used by system builders or by users who want to install and license MS Office on another PC.
Microsoft Office Basic 2007 is the essential, preinstalled software suite for homes and small businesses with new computers that enables you to quickly and easily create great-looking documents and spreadsheets and manage email. The latest release features the 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-email filter to reduce spam email. With these enhancements, Office Basic 2007 makes it easier and more enjoyable for you to get tasks done at home or work.
Main 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.
A junk-email filter that helps to significantly reduce spam email messages.
Anti-phishing tools that alert you to suspicious and potentially fraudulent email messages.
Automatic document recovery that helps retrieve Microsoft Office documents after a system stops responding.
The Document Inspector that detects and removes personally identifiable information, comments, and tracked changes from documents.
Command tabs on the results-oriented Ribbon that display commonly used commands that previously appeared only in lengthy drop-down menus.
An improved Help system that offers you 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.
Context-sensitive command tabs that change automatically depending upon the task that you are trying to complete.
Online tutorials that provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks.
Instant Search that helps you quickly find information in any of the Outlook modules such as email, calendar, and contacts.
A To-Do Bar that brings tasks, appointments, and flagged email messages together into one place.
Color Categories that help you quickly differentiate email 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.)
System Requirements
Hard Disk
1.5 GB hard-disk space; a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
Memory
256 MB RAM or higher.
Processor
500 MHz processor or higher.
Platform
Windows XP with SP2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system.
Other
CD-ROM or DVD drive.
1024x768 or higher resolution monitor.
Certain inking features require running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later; speech-recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device; Information Rights Management features require access to a Windows 2003 Server with SP1 or later running Windows Rights Management Services.
Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later required for certain advanced functionality in Outlook 2007; Dynamic Calendars require server connectivity; Instant Search requires Microsoft Windows Desktop Search 3.0.
Connectivity to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services required for certain advanced collaboration functionality; Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 required for certain advanced functionality.
Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32-bit browser only; Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply).
Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.
The Office Clean-up wizard not available on 64-bit OS.
512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Outlook Instant Search; grammar and contextual spelling in Word is not turned on unless the machine has 1 GB memory.