the monster of Microsoft products....

apparently the "15 day eval" is actually 60 days...

defer evaluating:

Business Contact Manager - remember it was a "CRM wanna be" - it failed pretty miserably last I tried it - it was buggy
Accounting Express - use MS Money for time being - I don't have to manage a payroll or anything at the moment!
Publisher - as much as Amana Magazine looks impressive - I'd rather go the Pages [iWork] route if anything
Access - never did get the hang of this - I suppose I should take advantage of the ease of using Access over Excel - perhaps it is a crutch solution instead of "wishing" for a UI on top of Google Spreadsheets (or even dabbledb...)
OneNote - would like to experiment with it - esp since Mei Lin had an inclination to want to try it... (she heard about the mini before I bought it!)
Groove - trial terms look funky - start app only 25 times?!? 12 month subscriptions?!? Can't I just eval Office Ultimate?
Project - didn't really consider this part of Office.
Visio - rather eval Rose or some other UML tool (MagicDraw?) - business modeling is *really* what I want to check out...
InfoPath - forms builder - easy UI on top of Access?
Communicator - unified communciation heh? Google? Skype? hmm...

Troubleshooting

I just had a hell of a time trying to uninstall this suite and had to go through this torture - at least it works!

How to uninstall the 2007 Office system if you cannot uninstall it by using the "Add or Remove Programs" feature (KB 928218)

stubborn files