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Companies 'Blah' About Vista

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-new-but-not-exciting dept.

PreacherTom writes "Those who expected the initial Vista release to generate a wave of hype will be sorely disappointed. While Vista is now available for companies, they do not really appear to care. The situation is the same with Office 2007. Why? Several reasons, not the least of which is expected difficulty in adaptation to the new features." From the article: "Office has an entirely new look and new formats for saving files in Word and Excel. Slick as it is, the new look will take some training to master. And the new file formats, which will be easier to use with high-end corporate programs such as those that run servers, mean users on older versions of Office will have to download a program to open documents and spreadsheets sent with the new technology. 'This thing is not going to be all that easy to roll out,' says Michael Silver, research vice-president at Gartner."

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  1. Re:a new car! by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft is going to "force" the software to wear out.
    New file formats are a good way to start.
    Not selling the old software.
    OEM bundles where the OS and applications are only to be used on that one machine. Get a new computer and pay for a new OS.
    I hope that OO.org instead focuses on making the software easier, smaller, faster, and more reliable.

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  2. Re:a new car! by diersing · · Score: 5, Insightful
    True. I also wonder if training is really that big a hurdle anymore. As the general public (and especially long term business users) get more tech savvy can't we expect the average user to just need a couple hours of play time to re-learn where the core functionality is? Everything the average user needs is in the ribbons of Office07, its just a matter of learning their arrangement.

    Even greater reason to push home users towards Google's Docs & Spreadsheets, but the business users everyone is concerned about aren't mindless cattle anymore. Lets give them credit. Office 2003 & 2007 can be installed in parallel, let them play with it and call it pilot testing.