The only thing that will convince Microsoft of their folly is if the take-up
of Word 2007 is poor, and/or the corporates move to WordPerfect or Open
Office in significant numbers. There's a huge potential retraining bill
here, and business does not like spending unnecessarily.
Whether this failure to take up is going to happen is anyone's guess. I
suppose that eventually if we wish to stay with the Word product we will
have to adapt. I for one am in no rush.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
Larry wrote:
With Word 2007, Microsoft has jumped the shark.
I think the Word community, led by the MVPs--and I've seen several
MVPs openly express their unhappiness about 2007—needs to communicate
with Microsoft and tell them that Word 2007 is UNACCEPTABLE. Acting
as a group we need to ask MS, among other things, to restore basic
features that have been removed such as the Menu bar, the Toolbars,
and custom menus and toolbars; to give users the ability to opt out
of the Ribbon (not just to minimize it temporarily, but get rid of
it); and to restore the ease of accessibility of various important
dialog boxes that have now been hidden away in the most senseless
locations.