I picked up Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager because I needed a better way to track my customers’ communications (I’m a work-at-home freelancer). I’ve been using it now as my primary e-mail client for about three months. So far, so good. I had little to no problems installing Outlook 2007. I’m using XP, and my Office suite is 2000. I like the GUI, but not all documents (especially Word and HTML docs) render as they do in their native apps, and I’m assuming this is because my other Office apps are getting way old.

If you’re looking for one app suite that will allow you to do basic photo-editing, video-editing and DVD-making, then Corel Digital Studio 2010 isn’t a bad choice. The apps included are not top shelf – they’re geared to the amateur user, most of whom will use the apps to perform the same simple tasks over and over (and there’s nothing wrong with that – that’s at least 85% of the market).

I picked up Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager because I needed a better way to track my customers’ communications (I’m a work-at-home freelancer). I’ve been using it now as my primary e-mail client for about three months. So far, so good. I had little to no problems installing Outlook 2007. I’m using XP, and my Office suite is 2000. I like the GUI, but not all documents (especially Word and HTML docs) render as they do in their native apps, and I’m assuming this is because my other Office apps are getting way old.

This isn’t really the app to get solely for driving directions, as there are less-expensive alternatives if you’re buying mainly for that purpose. If you need to data-map info from your business or organization, however, than this fits the bill. The GUI isn’t elegant, but it gets the job done.

I tried to install this on my new Windows laptop running Win 8.1.1 64-bit with an Intel i7 processor, plenty of HD space, plenty of RAM. The installation program ran for about an hour and then an alert came up saying that the program had stopped working. I okayed out of that and then two windows came up with numerical codes. A final window came up saying that the installation had not finished and nothing on my computer was changed.

I happen to already have a subscription to Ancestry.com and periodically work on a tree that I created there, so I was already familiar with the main features of this program and found it easy to operate. To a person new to the program, though, I think that there would be a bit of a learning curve, simply because of the volume and variety of data the program has to work with.

Unfortunately, I’m going to have to give this product a negative review. I have been unable, to date, to get it to install on my Dell laptop (Vista OS) via the disc provided. I shut down all my security programs so that nothing would interfere with the installation, but it reaches a certain point and then just crashes. I’ve been in touch with Acronis customer service and they provided me with a new, downloaded version of the program, but the same thing happened.

Hard for these products to compete with MINT which is free.

Not bad but not great either. Switching to mint.

I use turbo tax every year.