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April 03, 2006
Office 2007!
I had my first glimpse of the new Office last Friday. Several thoughts:
- Microsoft says it's simpler -- what I saw reminded me of my experience with Tax Simplification.
- Looks to me like those who teach Office Applications have full employment for quite a number of years to come.
- MS touts that it was designed using the experience of thousands of users whose experience was documented and processed by a staff of a 100 anthropologists. Wish this didn't make me think of design by committee.
- Sure glad I don't write Office Application texts. Everything about the UI is new.
I shouldn't be so skeptical from an early peek, I know. Maybe after I use it, the beauties of the new UI will become clear. Right now it looks very confusing ... like they've re-wrapped the complexity in Office XP -- re-factored it, so to speak -- but the complexity is still there. It's just hard to find. But, we'll see.
Posted by DavidK at April 3, 2006 12:15 PM | Permalink