Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) tried a different approach in their Office 2007after dropping their Window's drop-down menu in favor of the ribbon, which displayed menu options in a strip across the top of the screen. The approach has been nixed due the complaints received from beta testes that the "ribbon" system took up too much screen space.
Microsoft orignally intended the change to make it easier for people to access the wide range of features in applications such as Word, Excel and Access. Despite the opposition the company will still offer this new feature just not in all its products.
They also confirmed that they are working on tools to help enterprises automatically translate existing documents into new file formats being introduced in Office 2007.
"We've been asked by a lot of customers to provide tools to do mass migrations," said Microsoft Australia technical specialist John Hodgson. "There will be tools that will take a million documents and migrate those to the new formats."
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ABSOLUTELY HATE 2007. Switching to Word Perfect would be my preference rather than using MS 2007 which takes 10x longer to do a project because of all the hunting.
Get rid of it.
Posted by: ljfaulstich@yahoo.com | October 2, 2007 11:22 AM | Permalink to Comment