Microsoft Office® Access 2007 Inside Out

Appendix A. Installing Your Software

Installing the Microsoft Office System

Installing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition

Converting from a Previous Release of Access

This book assumes you have installed Microsoft Office Access 2007 as part of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 or Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007. To install Microsoft Office and related software for a single user, you need a Microsoft Windows–compatible computer configured as follows:

• A Pentium 500 megahertz (MHz) or faster processor (Pentium III is recommended as a minimum).

• Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (or later), or Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (or later) operating system.

• At least 256 megabytes (MB) of random access memory (RAM); 512 ...