Re: At least I'm not the only one ...

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"Mike Williams" <mikea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>'s wild thoughts
were released on Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:47:09 +0100 bearing the
following fruit:

"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eYhAGgx2IHA.5112@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Since then MS put a lot of effort
in the 'user experience' hence, Office 2007 and Vista.

To near universal agreement that everything is only worse.

Agreed. My own experience of Office 2007 is that it is dreadfully slow,
entirely non intuiative and not very reliable. On my machine (AMD 3000+) MS
Word takes at the very least four seconds to start up, even after I have
given it the best fighting chance by opening it just after I have closed it,
and often very much longer. It also has a habit of crashing (MS Word is not
responding) when I close it down. My wife uses MS Publisher and she has
similar problems with that as well (apart from the crash on closing). Office
2007 is a dreadfully bloated piece of software that does not work very well
and its only purpose, as far as I can see, is to persuade us all to pay for
another ride on the MS carousel.

I've never had a problem with 2007 on any machine. I think
people who know Word very well will hate the new interface
but occasinal users like myself are using far more features
than ever because it's so easy.

Again, in my experience those that move to Vista or 2007
hate it. Ask them again in a month or so and they love it.

I think the ribbon control is a good move.
--
Jan Hyde

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Jan.Hyde
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