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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 870750" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>At the risk of looking like I'm retracting my original assertion, I do agree with you about Office 2K7. I didn't include it specifically before though because my experience with it is limited and I don't like jumping to conclusions on limited experience. I only experienced it at work mostly and it was a slow rollout (oh how I remember trying to support two very different versions of Office). The major complaint was the totally redesigned UI and the new Office formats. Trying to go to every computer and install the patch that allowed OOXML support was brutal. That said, most people warmed up to the UI and since it provided support for all Office formats, it started becoming popular. This is the basis for my claim to the quality of Office. Perhaps though, much like Windows, people don't know of much outside of Office. To each their own I guess.</p><p></p><p>Office 2K3 though is solid. It was fast and fairly stable in my experiences. Now, mind you, I have only really used Office 2K3 in a cursory way as well but from my experience, it was a pretty good version. My last real experience was with 2000 and I really don't remember it well. The previous 5 years have seen me using OOo predominately.</p><p></p><p>I understand the frustration with the Ribbon paradigm as I much prefer a design paradigm dominated by the menu/shortcut principle. How do you feel about the increased pervasiveness of the ribbon in W7 then (out of curiosity)? Last I checked it became the primary UI design for Paint and Wordpad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 870750, member: 71075"] At the risk of looking like I'm retracting my original assertion, I do agree with you about Office 2K7. I didn't include it specifically before though because my experience with it is limited and I don't like jumping to conclusions on limited experience. I only experienced it at work mostly and it was a slow rollout (oh how I remember trying to support two very different versions of Office). The major complaint was the totally redesigned UI and the new Office formats. Trying to go to every computer and install the patch that allowed OOXML support was brutal. That said, most people warmed up to the UI and since it provided support for all Office formats, it started becoming popular. This is the basis for my claim to the quality of Office. Perhaps though, much like Windows, people don't know of much outside of Office. To each their own I guess. Office 2K3 though is solid. It was fast and fairly stable in my experiences. Now, mind you, I have only really used Office 2K3 in a cursory way as well but from my experience, it was a pretty good version. My last real experience was with 2000 and I really don't remember it well. The previous 5 years have seen me using OOo predominately. I understand the frustration with the Ribbon paradigm as I much prefer a design paradigm dominated by the menu/shortcut principle. How do you feel about the increased pervasiveness of the ribbon in W7 then (out of curiosity)? Last I checked it became the primary UI design for Paint and Wordpad. [/QUOTE]
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