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What next for Microsoft Office?
Word is starting to appear of the next version of Microsoft Office. No surprises as Office is a real money spinner for Microsoft.
Of course, the real question is what else Office could possibly need. The new ribbon interface is a great idea but it's sometimes hard to see what else can be added to the basic Office family members. Collaboration is a different matter of course but that tends to be of more interest to business users.
As an aside, if the new ribbon bar in Office 2007 is proving to be a bit much, you might like to try the Classic Menu for Office 2007 software.
It has to be said, not everybody likes it, Darren Strange suggested in his blog that it would be better to stick with Office 2003 because of confusion with shortcut keys and problems with other addins. Still this is worth a go if your computer was supplied with 2007 and you don't want to spend the money for a new copy.
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my point was that this is not classic mode and its not the ribbon either. It puts menus on a tab but whenever you work on an object it brings up contextual tabs. It still has live preview and galleries. it is a half-way house that will confuse die hard 2003 lovers and not deliver any of the benefits that Fluent was designed to give you. As such it is actually worse than 2003. I think you'd be mad to deploy this. better to either stick with 2003 or deploy 2007 with the "where has it gone?" feature finders.
posted-by Darren Strange | October 31, 2007 2:27 PM