Office 2007 — Better But a Tough Switch

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Office 2007, coming out Jan. 30, is a 'radical revision,' writes the Wall Street Journal's Walter S. Mossberg. 'The entire user interface, the way you do things in these familiar old programs, has been thrown out and replaced with something new. In Word, Excel and PowerPoint, all of the menus are gone — every one. None of the familiar toolbars have survived, either. In their place is a wide, tabbed band of icons at the top of the screen called the Ribbon. And there is no option to go back to the classic interface.' He adds, 'It has taken a good product and made it better and fresher. But there is a big downside to this gutsy redesign: It requires a steep learning curve that many people might rather avoid.'"

Comments

Bye Bye Microsoft

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It was nice knowing you in the early years. But now, good riddance.

Way to take the things that worked and allowed me to use muscle memory and familiarity to get stuff done and throw them out. This just happened to IE7 and it sucks now. This happened to Money and it sucks to an extreme level now.

The applications don't even match each other any more.

The company is going into the ground like a lawn dart. I'm glad I moved my office manager to OpenOffice last year.