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Microsoft Office 2007 Highly Compressed Review

The results were a swamp of blinking banners and download buttons that lied. "Speed: 10 MB/s!" his modem screamed in sarcasm. He clicked through three fake "Download Now" buttons before landing on a forum called Warezoasis . The background was animated flames. The font was Comic Sans.

Clippy says: "It looks like you're trying to escape. Would you like help?" microsoft office 2007 highly compressed

Zane clicked "Yes" because he was sleep-deprived and really needed that Oxford comma. The results were a swamp of blinking banners

His high school English final was due in three days. The assignment was a 2,000-word comparative essay on Macbeth and The Lion King . The teacher required submission in actual format. Zane had a cracked version of Office 2000, but it crashed every time he tried to insert a comment. The background was animated flames

For two days, Zane wrote. And the software helped . It auto-completed sentences with insights he hadn't thought of. It flagged weak arguments before he made them. It even wrote the conclusion for him—a hauntingly beautiful paragraph about the cyclical nature of guilt that made him genuinely jealous of a piece of software.

Zane laughed. 54MB? The actual suite was over 600MB. That was like fitting an elephant into a lunchbox.