[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Alternatively, you can still get Office 2007 HSE for less than $100 at
Amazon and other online retailers; order now and get a free upgrade to
Office 2010.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
...
You claim that Office is too expensive and that the older user interface
was better. If that is the case, why don't you switch to Open Office? It's
free, has the old menu style interface, and can handle almost all Office
formats (doc, docx, ...)

As to the prices being reasonable... The Home and Student version of
Office 2010 will cost 150 USD and you can install it on 3 computers.
Considering MS doesn't force you to upgrade your copy of Office, you can
probably run the software for 5 years or more. This would mean that the
cost for Office is 10 USD or less a year a computer. Seems pretty
reasonable to me.

With regards to the change of user interface:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C0M2CL9TJE

Yves

"Involuntary Microsoft Slave" Involuntary Microsoft
wrote in message
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Dear Microsoft,

Since you are already a multi-kadrillion world leader in technology and
all,
would it be possible to put Microsoft Office back into PC's and charge
more
reasonable prices for your software? Microsoft Works stinks. Period.

Oh yeah, call this a little late, but Word 2007 is really not as
"intuitive"
as you might like to think. After more than a decade of classic Office
menus
and dropdowns, sticking every single thing into a ribbon and clicking all
over the place to access what used to be a click away, to me, is very
'counterintuitive' and counterproductive. Bring back the dropdowns with
the
hotkeys listed for each function and call it a day. Sometimes the most
innovative thing to do is to 'keep it simple'.

I'm sure my gripe won't get far in such a heavily matrixed and gargantuan
corporation such as yours and I also know that the myriad users in PC
Land
have no choice but to accept whatever "strategic" direction you choose to
pursue with the software that is a staple of their daily business and
home
lives, but if you're really concerned about customer satisfaction
(although
at this stage in your corporate lifecycle, you appear to be more
interested
in impressing yourself than end-users and your aggressive growth strategy
to
eradicate the 'little guys' and superimpose your product offerings over
every
nook and cranny of this earth so that your reach becomes almost stifling
and
inescapable, has already proven wildly successful and grossed you
billions.
So who gives a rat's fart what the actual consumers want or need because
they
don't really have a choice anyway...right?) then give us reasonable
prices
and more useful, user-friendly software.

Respectfully,

Involuntary Mirosoft Slave

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