Redmont now finally brings a real Office XP on the market, because Office XP = Office 2002 still had no playful 3D buttons. Actually Office XP should be called only Office 2002. The new office fits the desktop design to, accepts topics from the operating system and therefore looks visually quite nice out. Apart from Office 2003 as its previous versions is a powerful office suite in an attractive design. For the average user who has Office 2000 or 2002, it definitely is not worth it. The biggest changes are in Outlook and even these are not earth-shattering, especially since freeware can take over large parts of the new tasks. Warning: Anyone who uses Outlook as I "intense", so for example, using plugins such as logos speech recognition, Quicksync with mobile, Winfax etc. should leave it alone, because most plug-ins do not run on Office 2003. As always, you should wait a year tighten up other companies. Then you have but again reach into your wallet, because Symantec (Winfax) and GData (Logox), to name just two examples, give out any free updates. So it come u. U. yet consequential costs to too that have to be considered.