The Professional Plus includes Outlook without the Business Contact Manager and adds the InfoPath information-gathering program, the Office Communicator instant messaging program, advanced information rights management and policy capabilities, electronic forms and integrated enterprise content management. Office Professional, which sells for $499 for the full version and $329 for the upgrade version, takes the Small Business edition and adds Access. The Small Business edition - full price, $449, upgrade price $279) includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher, as well as Outlook with Business Contact Manager. The standard version, which costs $399 - $239 for an upgrade - includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and may be the version most stand-alone, individual home users will purchase. Home and Student is expected to sell for $149, though its S&T predecessor recently sold for under $100. OneNote is an organizer that replaces Outlook from the previous Student and Teacher (S&T) edition. The new Office Home and Student (H&S) version includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

Microsoft Office Basic includes Word, Excel and Outlook and is available only from manufacturers, meaning it will most likely be the version preloaded on new desktops and notebooks. According to Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, 'The 2007 Microsoft Office system RTM completes the most significant improvements to the products in more than a decade.' Microsoft praised the quantity and quality of the feedback from beta testers of the software suite. (See 'The Lowdown on Office 2007' for an in-depth review and visual tour of the suite's new interface.) It has been marked by controversy over a significantly revamped interface in many of the application's familiar menus and toolbars, which have been replaced with Ribbon, a colorful tabbed bar divided into groups of icons and buttons organized by task. Office 2007 includes a revamped user interface, greater support for non-English languages and more collaboration tools. The company did, however, announce a new service - SMS Link for Office Outlook 2007 - that lets Outlook 2007 users send and receive e-mail, contacts, appointments and tasks to mobile phones as SMS text messages. A company representative told Computerworld that no new features have been introduced since Beta 2.

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