Reply to: MS Office 2007

[portseven]

Ah but then they would loose thier stranglehold on the format and people would start using open office. While it would be a great feature to add it is not econmically viable for them

That's why they have released Office Open XML, trying to jump on the bandwagon and get it accepted as a ISO standard (OpenDocument is ISO/IEC 26300:2006)

[angusglover]

I actually prefer MS Office 2004 for the MAC. IT just seems so much easier and so much more stable....

[Ardesco]

The best thing Microsoft could do is to support OpenDocument natively

OpenOffice also has a sharepoint equivalent

http://o3spaces.org/Page/sp3/nctrue/index.html

Ah but then they would loose thier stranglehold on the format and people would start using open office. While it would be a great feature to add it is not econmically viable for them

[portseven]

The best thing Microsoft could do is to support OpenDocument natively

OpenOffice also has a sharepoint equivalent

http://o3spaces.org/Page/sp3/nctrue/index.html

[2uk]

I was going to say, it seems like document management and integration with the MS web interface is the main selling point of Office 2007... the corporate future and all that. Maybe the usability of the software got forgotten somewhere along the line, I dunno.

Sharepoint is the major improvement to Microsoft's Office products since Word 1. It is now to Office docs what Exchange has been to Outlook. If you are in the MS arena you will know how hot it is.

[dang65]

Sharepoint Server integration.

I was going to say, it seems like document management and integration with the MS web interface is the main selling point of Office 2007... the corporate future and all that. Maybe the usability of the software got forgotten somewhere along the line, I dunno.

[2uk]

The easiest word interface ever and Sharepoint Server integration. That is enough.

[xoggoth]

I had a time limited version on my new computer. Horrible. Deleted it and installed my old office 2000. Fair enough to learn new tools etc. but not totally different interface just for the sake of it.

[chicane]

Lovely bit of software, but it just can't handle MS office format files correctly all the time.

I thought I was the only one around here willing to admit this.

[Euro-commuter]

Lovely bit of software, but it just can't handle MS office format files correctly all the time. If you are using it in a closed environment and the documents don't need to go outside of this environment it's great. If you need to swap documents with other businesses (who will undoubtably be using MS Office) it's not worth the hassle of and extra 5-10 mins on each document making it work properly with MS Office.

But if you swap documents with others using Office 97, they can lift files from your PC.

A cynic might say that MS left OFfice 97 dangerous, and alternative software shut out, so that we would have to buy more later versions of Office that we don't really need. I couldn't possibly comment.

[Ardesco]

I'm currently trialling an upgrade to Open Office.

Lovely bit of software, but it just can't handle MS office format files correctly all the time. If you are using it in a closed environment and the documents don't need to go outside of this environment it's great. If you need to swap documents with other businesses (who will undoubtably be using MS Office) it's not worth the hassle of and extra 5-10 mins on each document making it work properly with MS Office.

[Euro-commuter]

We've started our first upgrade roll out of Office Pro 2007.

WTF is that all about?? WTF has Microsoft pissed about with a perfectly good 2003 version to make it almost unusable. The first-line guys are getting more and more calls from users who are frankly completely confused in doing the simplest tasks in Word or Excel.

I must admit, even I sruggled when I first started with it.

I'd keep using Office 1997 myself, I know it and it works for me. Except of course for security holes that they don't intend to fix, in contradiction to the mantra that I have often heard Bill Gates drag out on TV: "nobody makes you upgrade, your old software will still work, it's all the great new features that make you positively want to buy the new stuff."

I'm currently trialling an upgrade to Open Office.

[angusglover]

Yeah, they really have moved the menus and changed the interface...I liked it but it was bloody slow and pretty unreliable....

[Kyajae]

To be honest, a pilot was suggested but the knobs in management didn't feel it necessary and just ordered the go ahead. Unfortunately, the Head of IT doesn't really speak up for himself or the dept. Pretty weak and spineless really.

Causing me no end of chuckles, though

[portseven]

WTF is that all about?? WTF has Microsoft pissed about with a perfectly good 2003 version to make it almost unusable.

Its all about using the monopoly to keep the shareholders happy. No reason to push out a new version beyond simply generating revenue.