3.5 StarsnnThis is a one-year subscription to Office 365, which can be installed on one PC/MAC and one tablet/phone. This includes all the standard office products: Word, Excel, OneNote, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Outlook. The only office product available for Android is OneNote. This used to be one of my favorite office products, but it’s been really crippled by the move to integrate it across platforms. It’s not nearly as flexible as it used to be.

This is a fairly typical learn by listening language system. It’s not bad, but it doesn’t bring anything new to the table. There are very few people who can successfully learn a language this way. Those who can will find it works just fine. It has the type of dialog you would expect. If you have tried other learn by listening programs you can expect the same results from this one.

It’s been a while since I used PaintShop Pro, and it’s as good as I remember. It has tools for both photo editing and graphic design. It’s not as robust as Adobe Photoshop, but I’ve always found it more user friendly and easier to use. Lots of cool filters and effects are included.

Most of the features simply don’t work. Many of the reports and forcasts perform incorrect calculations. I have limited success syncing online, as often Quicken gets errors trying to download transactions. I have to track my investements in a spreadsheet, because the Quicket feature is a joke. And the most painful part is just all the small bugs, like when buying a stock you have to enter the date and information before you can type in the new symbol, but when Quicket looks up the symbol it erases all the information you entered.

There are so many frustrating bugs that I’m considering giving up on even tracking my finances with this kind of software. The investing reports give random and useless values. Transfer transactions cannot be deleted. It crashes regularly. And often when I shut it down, it leaves files locked so that I have to reboot before I can run it again. Considering that they add no noticeable enhancement each year, it seem that even a slightly competent development team could have fixed these issues by now.

There are so many bugs in the software it is extremely frustrating to use. Many of my accounts it will not download transactions for. Some investments accounts it has all by stocks, but show a total of $0. Combined with the inconsistent downloading, it’s almost impossible to reconcile the accounts. There is no support at all.nI have wasted hours searching forums only to find that many people have the same problems, but no answers.

I have spent hours and have yet to get my home network nor email working. Vista randomly decides that my XP Home computers are not secure (even though for years Microsoft has been saying they are) and refuses to even show they exist. When it does show them, it still refuses to let me copy files to them because they are not secure. So, now per Vista’s recommendation I have a full backup of my hard drive on that hard drive in case it fails (since it would be insecure to have it on another hard drive.

This version of Norton’s internet security suite includes exclusive small business capabilities (Central Web Management Portal, and Simple Onboarding - Email invite to employees. We didn’t need to use these), and 100% virus removal guarantee. I installed it on our office PCs running Windows 8 without any problems. Runs silently in the background without overburdening system resources.

You know how hard it is to draw up a will when you have multiple properties spread across several states with assets stored in US and international markets? Yeah, me neither. I have a house, a car, some stuff, some kids, a wife. I once donated a few hundred dollars to my local attorney in exchange for a will. A few more kids later I decided to update it and gave WillMaker a try.

Overall I’ve found this to be a very handy program. I just like to use it to enable me to fill out PDF forms rather than printing them out. That’s pretty much all I use it for, so that’s all I can comment on. It does replace Adobe reader as the default way to view PDFs, something that I changed. I only occasionally want to use this and it takes longer to load and does not have as clean an interface for reading.