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PC World's 20 Most Innovative Products of 2006

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the top-20-list dept.

Craig Sender writes "PC World has put together a list of their choices for the 20 Most Innovative Products of 2006. The List includes Office 2007, Nintendo Wii, Sony Reader, Sony PlayStation 3, the BlackBerry Pearl, and some other interesting choices."

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  1. Office 2007? by vp_development · · Score: 1, Troll

    Good lord, how is this innovation in anything except crapiness? Office 2007 is the opposite of ODF, which is the wave of the future in documents. Fighting against the community for profit is hardly innovative -- MSFT has been doing it for years.

    1. Re:Office 2007? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yup, this ribbon thingy is the innovation that is going to send the technophobes, rigidly used to the conventions of M$ Office since '95 or '97, screaming over to OpenOffice, where, paradoxically, they will feel more at home. Factor in all the retraining, hand holding and slowdown in productivity of large scale offices & OpenOffice starts looking even better. Way to go M$.

  2. Re:Here are the top 10. by seebs · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you'll buy it for me, I'll try it.

    I'm not about to spend $hundreds on the off chance that, for the first time since 1987, I'm going to find that MS Word has suddenly become a good tool for writing with.

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  3. Re:Here are the top 10. by seebs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, next time I want to wreck every file I touch by running it through a new version of Word, and I'm booted to Windows for some inexplicable reason, I'll totally think about checking it out.

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  4. Re:Here are the top 10. by Monoman · · Score: 0, Troll

    The real question. How can Office 2007 be an even considered? Can you even buy it yet? Heck, the product even has 2007 in the name!!!

    This article just smells of BULLSHIT to me.

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