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Summary: What JUNK ! Looks like a banner ad for MS
Review: Just a disgrace !
Microsoft should give you a free computer just to use this Microsoft Advertisement thinly masked as software.
It's funny MS thinks it's OK to put what amount to banner ads on the main screen. Special offers and other MS Advertisements dominate every click.
This is worse than junk. It's a disgrace. Let's all pray the future direction of software addresses the needs of the end user, not the software vendor.
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Summary: Awful, awful, awful software
Review: M$ have outdone themselves this time. The program appears to be written in Flash 5 and runs out of your browser. That should be the first worry, secondly it crashes about every 5 to 10 minutes on a regular basis. In fact, I've never even finished a project on it, and nor do I want to. Good job I won it in a competition, otherwise I'd be straight up to Redmond to demand my money back. The software is written for the 5 to 10 year old intellect, so anyone serious about design, then please stay away. Consider something from Adobe - save your soul.As mentioned before, if you are running Windows 2000 then you are going to have all kind of problems. The software also installs lots of extra things you don't want like a calendar, then attempts to connect over the web to 'update' itself.... Keep that firewall handy. Don't let the 250k icons draw you in, there is nothing there you cannot get off the web for free anyway.
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Summary: Best and The Most Easy Designing Software From All Others
Review: Microsoft Picture It! is the most easy software for desiging for those who are beginner and also for those who are expert in designing. Its so easy that even 10 year old child can use it to make such a good and professionl looking pictures and else. Who ever is planning to buy this product is very lucky because its the one every one which makes such a nice and perfect graphics and all other things you would like to edit.
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Summary: Crash and burn Software
Review: Microsoft Picture It! Publishing Platinum 2002 looks promising, but we probably won't find out as we hardly ever finish anything using it without a crash. I have gone to Micrsoft's own newsgroups, and followed their advice and it still crashes. Belive it or not their stock answer seems to be that the problem lies with your computer, or your software. I don't expect any support from MS on this, they treat it like orphan-ware. Buyer beware, it may work on your system, but MS says it doesn't like HP printers, Norton Antivirus, and sunny days(ha Ha).
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Summary: What a Bag of Bugs!
Review: My wife got this for the good collection of art and projects. It's pretty easy to use...EXCEPT FOR THE CONSTANT CRASHES. Thisa memory-hog program is so buggy you can hardly complete a project without crashing/restarting your machine. Those of you who want to do print quality work beware, and remember to close EVERYTHING else before using it. Check some reviews on this and other versions- you'll see what I mean. It's not just me complaining. I do tech and hardware support for users all the time and this is Typical Microsoft Method to issue software full of bugs then expect folks to live with it.
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Summary: Thanks for the advice
Review: Thank you to all who wrote advice on this product. I have been trying to decide on Picture It or Photoshop. After reading all the comments I know for sure I will not be getting Picture It. I was looking for cheapest but I will pay the extra for Photoshop. I guess it's true when they say you get what you pay for.
Thanks Again.
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Summary: ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!!!
Review: The rating of one star is only because there is no ZERO!! Garbage In, Garbage Out, the credo of computer geeks, also applies to software. MS "PICTURE IT! PUBLISHING PLATINUM" is GARBAGE. The software simply does not perform. It crashes frequently, the tools are not intuitive, there is no user manual and the help library leaves somewhat to be desired. Do not depend on this product to get the job done, particularly if you are new to publishing an amature WEB site. This software is not reliable when running with Windows-98 on a 800 MHz 40-GB Dell Dimension-Plus. Microsoft is correct when stating that a lot of work is needed in software development and reliability. This product proves the point. Perhaps a change in the product Name should also be considered.
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Summary: Promises, Promises
Review: The software promises a lot but doesn't come close to delivering. I had lots of problems with it. For example, it is not configured for ease of use. It took me about 30 minutes to configure a #10 STANDARD envelope. This was really irritating because I have a new STANDARD HP color printer with which I've never had a problem, until now. In my mind there should be no configuration needed for a STANDARD anything. The idea is that when you have the design you want, you should be able to click on STANDARD envelope size and have it print. Not so with this program. Additionally, the program's promise to run on 32 MB of memory is a fallacy. I have the standard 64 MB and this program won't run concurrently with other programs. It crashed my system several times and I got lots of error messages throughout the program. Prior to this, my system was running fine. And if Microsoft thinks I'm going to call their long distance support for help, they are crazy. This irked me so much that I'm no longer a loyal Microsoft user. I'm returning the product and I'll shop around for another product that actually works.
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Summary: And another thing...
Review: There is another problem that I do not see mentioned here.
All of the images that were included under Arttoday.com, are pretty much useless. CD #5 by the way. All of the images are thumbnails and therefore are not able to be enlarged. There is a 3 month membership to Arttoday included, but one would be tempted to replace the images that should already be included. I contacted Arttoday and Microsoft to see if I could get usable pictures but to no avail.
I didn't have as many problems that a lot of the other users had ( I have XP, 256RAM, Epson Printer) but I did have a lot of crashes and green boxes. So I did return the program after speaking to Microsoft online, who was very helpful by the way. Arttoday seemed annoyed that I even asked for a repair ofwhat I had already paid for.
I would have liked to have kept the program, for there were a lot of other nice images since I am a novice, but it was frustrating locating an image and then finding out I couldn't use it.
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Summary: Fantastic Consumer Graphics Program
Review: This is a terrific program for creating greeting cards, flyers, certificates, labels, etc. Incredibly easy for even beginners to learn to use. Has a huge library of sample projects and graphics. It's silly to compare PictureIt's photo editing capabilities, which are perfectly adequate for basic, nonprofessional use, to Photoshop, which costs about ten times as much and requires substantial training and experience. Previous versions of this software could be challenging to older computers and operating systems, but runs great on a new Pentium IV using Windows XP w/ample RAM. Of the 4-5 similar programs I've tried, this is easily the best for general consumer graphics use.
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