I gotta say that I am profoundly disappointed with Office 2007. I'm still
trying to understand the ribbon... (it seems to basically be just an
"exploded" menu bar)... but in essense, this is nowhere near the
revolutionary release MS marketing is contending.

1) Excel and PowerPoint STILL have the same confusing, horrible MDI /
fake-sdi interface. How hard is it to get Word's true SDI right? Even
better, implement a nice TABBED document interface. Give the taskbar a
break. This is a showstopper.

2) Dialogs are just as unattractive- and more importantly, unintuitive- as
ever... in fact they look completely untouched. For instance, Word's Modify
Style dialog box (with the unintuitively placed Modify button in the lower
left hand side) is just as unweildy as ever. Excel's equation dialog doesn't
look like it's been touched since Windows 3.1.

3) Why does resizing the window not resize the view? How do we get a Text
Width view? Oh, now I have to go into dialog box to do it?! You gotta be
kidding me. Word's "view" of a document is just as distracting and annoying
as ever.

4) No *unified* Template Center / Gallery / Task Manager? Office has needed
an attractive, nicely designed Task Manager for a long time. The old New /
Open tools were a beginning but they were never IMPROVED. The idea wasn't
bad.... it just wasn't followed through on. Often, I'll need to create a
document but not sure which app to use (Word or Publisher... I don't know!!!
I'm so confused! Let me call IT.... wait I am IT!!!).

There's more... but these are biggies. So far, I don't see much in this
release that especially compelling. Same old Office..... with a new menu
bar.

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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com