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Word 2007 is unacceptable and must be changed
Larry
I like the new look.. everything is out there, plain as day.. no more searching through drop down menus, moving the mouse onto arrows while try to select a function.. it doesn't take too long to get used to it.. what is the real difference between clicking on the Office button as opposed to the old FILE tab? You have obviously never used Lotus WordPro.. now that was a confusing app if ever there was one, yet after a little use, one could start to see the value in context sensitive boxes.. "Larry" wrote in message ... What Stan has just said cancels out volumes of electrons justifying each new MS innovation on the basis that "This is what people want," "MS tested thousands of Word users and found that they don't use Feature X or Feature Y," "MS is seeking to maintain and expand its market for Word, and it can only do so by appealing to the broadest possible user base," etc. etc. No. The reality is that MS comes out with a new version of Office, and the corporations either buy it outright or get it automatically the next time they buy new computers, and so everyone ends up with the new version of Word. Period. Individual desires of users, collective desires of masses of users, have nothing to do with it. MS puts forth what MS wants to put forth, and the world buys it. MS got rid of toolbars and the menu bar, MS replaced the File menu with the "Microsoft Office button," because MS got onto a kick and decided that these were neat ideas and that everyone had to conform to them, not because there was some demand or need for the "Microsoft Office Button" in the real world. , so MS eliminated it in the interests of "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sun, 8 Apr 2007 11:57:41 -0500 from Beth Melton : I suspect more will upgrade to Office 2007 than everyone thinks. I think you're right. In large organizations, software is typically deployed by IT departments, and the decisions are typically made by people who don't actually use the software in question. For some reason the decision- makers seem to believe that "newer is better", even if they have to pay to upgrade. I'm not saying Office 2007 is a bad thing; I think it's too early to say (aside from obvious flaws like slow graphics and slow calculations in Excel 2007). But I'm saying that the quality of Office 2007 will have only a minor impact on the level of adoption. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ -- Mike Hall MS MVP Windows Shell/User http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/ |
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