Find and use the features you need    
The new and intuitive look and feel of Office Small Business 2007 makes it easier for you to find and use the features you need - when you need them. The appropriate menus and toolbars are displayed automatically based on the task you are working on.

Search, manage, and prioritise your e-mail   
Advanced search features in Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager help you quickly find critical information. The Colour Category feature helps you sort and manage e-mail messages, while the improved junk mail screening and anti-phishing tools help you filter out undesirable e-mail.

Manage time and tasks more efficiently
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager includes a new To-Do Bar that presents a consolidated view of tasks, calendar information and e-mail messages flagged for follow-up. Scheduled tasks appear on your calendar, and you can allocate time for tasks with drag-and-drop functionality to help you stay organised.

Manage all your customer and prospect information in one place      
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager includes a complete customer and contact management solution. Now you can centralise contact, customer and prospect information in one place - including communications history, projected sales value, probability of closing, and related tasks. You can also store all your communications with a customer in one place, including all e-mail messages, phone calls, appointments, notes and documents.

Manage sales leads and opportunities more effectively
As well as helping you manage your sales contacts, Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you organise leads and opportunities in one place. The innovative dashboard feature provides a consolidated view of your customer and prospect information, to help you make decisions and prioritise tasks. Enhanced reporting features include over 50 reports that can easily be customised to your unique business needs, while new filtering capabilities help you forecast and close sales.

Produce professional marketing materials and campaigns in-house
Office Publisher 2007 helps you create and distribute a wide range of marketing publications in-house for print, e-mail and the Web. Hundreds of professionally designed and customis able templates - and more than 100 blank publication types - are included, and it’s simple to standardise logos, colours, fonts and business information in whatever publications you create.

Manage your marketing campaigns more efficiently
Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you easily initiate, manage and track marketing campaigns. Office Publisher 2007 can combine and filter mailing lists and data from multiple sources, so you can create personalis ed print and e-mail materials, as well as custom collateral such as catalogues and datasheets. Then with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, you can track and assess responses, to determine the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

Create more professional-looking documents and presentations in less time
Office Word 2007 includes new templates and tools that make it easier to reuse content, apply professional formatting and preview changes. Office PowerPoint 2007 speeds up the process of creating dynamic presentations, and includes an extensive library of customisable themes and slide layouts, plus new graphic tools to help you create high-impact charts and graphics.

Improve decision making with enhanced information analysis
Office Excel 2007 includes new tools for filtering, sorting and visualising information, to help you analyse business data more effectively. The new collection of predefined styles, along with enhanced charts and graphics, enable you to apply a consistent and professional look to everything you create.

Find, use, and manage information more effectively
Manage your business information using new tools for creating databases, and for organising and visualis ing information. Office Access 2007 helps even inexperienced users to create new databases quickly and simply. It includes a library of predefined database tracking applications for the most common business processes. And now, Office Access 2007 is   now more intuitive thanks to the Fluent user interface and the datasheet view, which is similar to Office Excel 2007. You can create reports with a single click, and use improved tools to filter, sort, group and subtotal your data.

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• 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher
• 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher
• 2 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive
• CD-ROM or DVD drive
• 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system
• 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 is required for certain advanced functionality in Outlook 2007. Instant Search requires Microsoft Windows Desktop Search 3.0. Dynamic Calendars require server connectivity
• Connectivity to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality. PowerPoint Slide Library requires Office SharePoint Server 2007. To share data among multiple computers, the host computer must be running Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows XP Professional with SP2, or later
• 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
  • 1 gigahertz (GHz) processor or higher and 512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Business Contact Manager. Business Contact Manager not available in all languages
  • 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
  • Office Clean-up wizard not available on 64 bit OS

Office Ultimate 2007 equips home or business users with a comprehensive toolset to gather and consolidate virtually any type of information. It’s then straightforward to accomplish whatever tasks you need: from creating professional-quality documents, to managing contact databases and collaborating across geographical or organisational boundaries. Office Ultimate contains a full suite of Office 2007 productivity tools: Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, Access 2007, Publisher 2007, OneNote 2007, Groove 2007 and InfoPath 2007.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 connects people, teams and knowledge. It equips workgroups to share and store information, define and implement business processes, and enables end-to-end collaboration.

If you buy software ‘off the shelf’, known as Full Packaged Product (FPP), Microsoft offers free "warranty" support to certain FPP customers through the Microsoft support hotline.

Any business looking to buy more than five licences should consider a Volume Licensing agreement. These two or three year agreements represent good value for money for business customers; there is a range of agreements available, catering for different types of organisations.