Re: Is Office 2007 better than Office 2003?
- From: jimmuh <jimmuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:17:01 -0800
Considering the exemplary performance of the suite I've been seeing under
Vista I have to wonder if Office 2007 with the new OS than it does with
WinXP. I also suspect that the appearance of the Office 2007 apps may meld
better with Vista's desktop / themes than it does with those of WinXP. I do
find it interesting that Microsoft chose to give the suite its own color
scheme, but I don't find it jarring. The software works well for me. As with
any complex software there are always features that one wishes worked in a
different manner. I've always found what I consider to be an extreme amount
of focus up front on the appearance of documents. I would prefer establishing
the the more substantive elements of the content of a document before
worrying about making it visually appealing, but the paradigm of making (or
at least encouraging) you choose how you want an idea to look as you
formulate it is pretty common in document preparation software these days. I
find it irksome, but I deal with it.
"hel@xxxxxxxx" wrote:
I saw it. I'm not that impressed. It's pretty.
slow to start the first time, maybe 10 seconds
(Outlook, vs. 2002, where it was ready after
it was clicked). Then, it can still be slow
when you move to your first folder. If you pre-
load it in startup (I think it does that by
default?) it may not be so bad. It picks up to
normal eventually, except for typing. Typing is
always slower than it seems it should be. It's
a bit better with all muck-with-your-stuff-as-
you-type disabled, but it still lags (assuming
you can type faster than you can talk; maybe you
won't notice). [Machine used was 2GB/2.5GHz X2]
Color clash is still there (most Windows apps
fail here). Set to a black theme (desktop XP and
the new black Outlook theme), and there's still
a lot of WHITE, e.g., an empty preview pane area
on the right shows as a big block of empty white.
The mail headers are also WHITE (off-white) and
the text color used is the same as the dialog box
(3d object) and so clashes if you have anything
but the stock-standard, default XP theme (with
white windows and black text). And the text font
in the header can't be changed from what I can
tell; it's way too small. All in all, I was not
that impressed at all (with Outlook). Lots and
lots of irksome problems -- problems that won't
be going away, and I can't list them all.
Save-as PDF is good; not configurable as a true
distiller, but as a free cookie tossed in, good
enough for everyday use. Puts Adobe out of the
PDF business... or will if people stop buying
Acrobat (et al.) and buy O7.
I just expected better, but it's windows software,
and that means cheap software (well, in the broad
sense), so you gets whats you pays for -- mostly
works but never the way you want, or expect.
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