This card is great for ESXi. If a person wanted to they can pass each individual port through to a different VM as this card uses a PLX PCI Express bridge to give dedicated PCIe lanes to each controller. There are two USB3 1042a controllers (Which may need to be downgraded to a lower level firmware as ESXi represents the PCI Device IDs incorrectly), and two Marvell storage controllers which I haven’t messed with much.

This card is great for ESXi. If a person wanted to they can pass each individual port through to a different VM as this card uses a PLX PCI Express bridge to give dedicated PCIe lanes to each controller. There are two USB3 1042a controllers (Which may need to be downgraded to a lower level firmware as ESXi represents the PCI Device IDs incorrectly), and two Marvell storage controllers which I haven’t messed with much.

Many reviewers have gone to the trouble of explaining how the user experience differs from previous versions of office so I won’t re-hash. Having used all of the programs now for a few months, I find that they do mark an improvement from the 2007 interface. I recall many months of frustration trying to adapt to the new changes. Not so this time around. It felt pretty effortless to use the features upon which most normal users rely.

My almost 5 year old does not really get a whole lot of independent screen time at the computer. We tried to introduce her to the software on our laptop and she just kind of got bored with it. We tried switching to the app for Ipad, which she is more comfortable with, but it is not linking up with the software profile we created…it seems more like an add on than a supplement to the reading program on the computer based tool.

Wow, I thought that I’d already done a review on this product. Will do one, now! Norton SW has saved my machines, almost daily, certainly at least once a month, for years. I just bought three more of these NSW 2006, as I couldn’t find them before (now have 9 sets, and I think each license is good for up to 3 machines). You can use the program from the CD, don’t have to install it.

UPDATE, 7/19/2012: see the comments to this review from Acronis. They claim the latest update to their installer was July 12, the day after my review below. Well, they just sent me that latest installer, and it failed just as described below. So a company which doesn’t test its own installer, is not a company which pays close enough attention to the all-important issue of backups. I won’t do business with them.

UPSHOT: YOU TURN YOUR COMPUTER/DEVICE INTO BIG BROTHER BY AGREEMENT IN THE LICENSE AT INSTALLATION, IF YOU INSTALL WINDOWS 10. Never before in history has such a ‘license’ created such awful terms. Look in the comments for links so you can see the language for yourself. I can’t put the links in an Amazon review. SERIOUSLY YOU NEED TO SEE FOR YOURSELF PRIOR TO INSTALLATION, WHAT HITLERIAN TERMS YOU’RE AGREEING TO.

UPDATE to review, 2/12/13: yes you CAN make MS Office 2002-2000 run in Win7, if Win7 is previously installed. I just installed both on my Dell laptops (Lat 6530 and 6510) which I just bought in January. In PC World, they maintain you can also install those same MS versions in Win8, but I’m so antagonistic to Win8 I’ve not installed it, yet. Original review follows below. ==================nnImagine, if you will, the annual How-to-Alienate-the-Customer Meeting in Redmond, Washington, aka ‘upgrade’ plan, for MS software.

UPDATE 4/23/13: if you’ve installed Windows 7 or 8 FIRST, and the installation is 32-bit, then you can indeed install these older MS Office programs. I installed MS Office Professional 2000 and 2002 on two Dell Windows 7 Professional 32-bit laptops. The 2003 is installed on a third Dell Windows 7 Pro, but is an Optiplex. Get 2002 or 2000, as 2003 (especially in Outlook) is very annoying. The latter also removes backwards compatibility UNLESS you download the UnlockExcel.

Microsoft products are all paranoid. They assume you are trying to pirate their stuff. So they are hard to install, understand, use. This paranoia began with XP, but the paranoia matured in Vista, and is full-fledged, in Win7. It’s positively manic, in Win8. So frankly, if you value your own sanity, never go beyond Win7. And keep your XP. I bought four more copies of XP Pro OS from DigiConcepts here in Amazon, because frankly I don’t want to use Win7 much.