What is the differences between Microsoft Project 2007 Standard and Microsoft Project 2007 Professional?

Answer 1

Here's Microsoft's explanation:

Office Project Standard 2007 is the latest version of the desktop project management program. As a stand-alone product, Office Project Standard 2007 helps project managers, business managers, and planners to manage and plan projects independently with familiar, easy-to-use tools. Office Project Standard 2007 is not designed to exchange data with Office Project Server 2007.

Office Project Professional 2007 is the desktop client that is also used to connect with Office Project Server 2007 as part of the Office EPM Solution. Office Project Professional 2007 offers all the tools found in Office Project Standard 2007, and when used with Office Project Server 2007, it also provides powerful EPM capabilities such as collaboration, management of shared resources, portfolio management, and reporting across projects and programs run by different project managers.

So what does that mean? Standard and Professional are the same unless you are going to use Project Server. Professional is required for Project Server and will cost nearly double. Otherwise, save your organization money and get Standard (retail $599/$349 upgrade vs. $999/599 upgrade).

Of course, please bear in mind that you may have future needs for Project Server so if that's the case, Project Professional should also be considered for your organization's growth, even if you don't need it today.

Answer 2

Other than the obvious price difference, Microsoft Office Professional Academic is only available for verifiable students (meaning you must be enrolled in courses in some sort of educational institution and you must have an email address for that institution; such as: JohnDoe@somecollege.edu). Microsoft also reserves the right to contact your school to verify your status.

Office Professional is more geared towards small businesses and also has a Web Apps program, which allows you to upload and share documents, files and slide shows created in any of the other Microsoft Office programs (such as OneNote, Word, Access, ...).

Ive also noticed that many versions of Microsoft Office Professional Academic do not include any kind of tech support. This could be a reason for the significant price difference.

Hope that was helpful.

Answer 3

Microsoft office pro includes more programs than basic Microsoft office.

Answer 4

They have different accessories on them.