Why I buy this one ?
- Microsoft Works 8 delivers the essential home productivity tools you need to make everyday tasks easier to start, do and finish
- The full version of Word 2002 for word-processing and document creation for home, work or school
- Money 2006 Standard lets you track all your financial information - spend less time worrying about your money and more time enjoying it
- Digital Image Standard 2006, you'll get all the convenient tools you need to organize, enhance and share your digital photos
- Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2006 provides you with the trusted, complete information resource that makes learning feel more like discovering

What our customer's say!

"Microsoft Works CD", I got the CD in the mail in a timely fashion. When I put it into my CD drive, nothing happened. I ended up called a Mircosoft suppport line for help which cost me another $50. They informed me that the CD was probably bad. I went to Circuit City, purchased a new CD and it worked fine. I spend $100 between Amazon and the Microsoft support line and got nothing to show for it.

Would I use Amazon again? Yes but not to purchase software.

"A great product", I am very satisfied with Microsoft Works. I purchased it for Microsoft Word. Well worth the money.

"Depends on how interested you are in the Word program", I bought this because I needed a new copy of Word. Since Word is always bundled with other programs I chose this one for the price. However, I did not know there would not be a Word 2006 in the pkg. I later learned that Word did not have a new and improved version in 2006. However, this version was Word 2002! What a drag! It is older than the version I had on my system which had become defective. Now I need to buy another version.

"Good Product", Good product for what it is, but I hardly ever use it these days -- opting for Microsoft office...

"Works Suite 2006 okay", The only drawback I see for this suite is the Word 2002. I get errors with Vista Home Premium where the program will stop responding and give me an error telling me to upgrade to fix the error. If Word 2007 was cheaper, I would have went with 2007 to begin with! Unfortunately, had to settle for Word 2002 and need to restart Word occacially. Make sure you set up the auto save for every 1 minute!

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"If you need it. It Has it all", Understand. I have a full MS New Office Suite that I got from work. But choose to use this product for the many items included which can't be beat. If you just want to use Word and nothing else then get it alone. This is fine. But the other products are worth the discount and rebate also. Cost is the lowest I found. If you have a reward ceriticate using Amazon Credit card. That $25 more off the price. So in the end it cost me $30 for it. Shop smart and use any break you could get. Right?


"Works Great", When I got a new computer at the end of 2001, the 2002 edition was installed on my computer by Gateway. Although I never used Streets and Trips (and barely used Encarta), I used Word and Picture It! quite heavily.

Well, my hard drive died a few weeks ago, and I had to get a new computer. I bought Microsoft Works Suite 2006 to go with it.

I was a bit apprehensive because Picture It! was replaced with Microsoft Digital Image Standard 2006 Editor. It took me a while to get fluent in Picture It!, and the idea of learning a new photo system was daunting. (I write mostly for the web, and use pictures to accompany my reviews and articles--as well as for eBooks.)

I haven't done any extensive work with it yet, but it appears easy to use IF you have experience with Picture It! If you've never used any image program before, it may be a bit confusing. (I feel that Picture It! was more self-explanatory.)

However, for all that the Works Suite gives you, I feel it's a good buy. Word 2002 has advantages over the older version (for example, you can easily insert images), and Encarta may be helpful for kids doing homework (or curious adults wanting to learn more about something).

Updating Encarta is easy as clicking a mouse: just open up the program and click "Update Encarta". New articles and updates will automatically be added to your computer.

Although I *still* don't use Streets and Trips (I go to MapQuest reflexively), I still think this is a great Suite for a great price.

"Great for home use", I use MS Office at work, and at home, but for my daughter's computer this was perfect.
Most people don't need the full version of office, and this package has so much for so little money.
The full version of Word is reason enough to spend this amount of money. Note: This is not the latest version, but who cares.
I would say this is one of the best software deals out there. Unless you need 100% office compatiblity, this is the package for you. If you do, buy the student and teacher version of MS Office. Read the fine print, it is for anyone not using it for business.

"Microsoft Word without Office", It seems no longer possible to buy MS Word as a stand-alone program so to get it one buys Microsoft Works Suite. This way one gets Word one version back from the most current version - plus Encarta, Streets and Trips, etc. When purchasing be sure to distinguish between the CD version and the DVD version. The latter comes on a single disk; the former on about six. Also, note this is not the same as Microsoft Works - a suite of programs often preloaded on a new computer. It has its own "peculiar" word processor, spreadsheet, etc. For more than Word, look for the Student and Teacher Edition of MS Office Suite.

"Doesn't really work well with Excel", I bought this so I'd be able to open Excel documents that I receive in email, as well as for Word. While I'm reasonably pleased with the Word functionality, potential buyers should know that the spreadsheet program is NOT Excel or even Excel lite, and is not fully compatible with .xls documents. I find this very irritating.