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Microsoft Office 2007
Nov 9^th, 2007 at 10:04am

Have any of you guys seen or used Microsoft Office 2007? I can't believe how incredibly gay they've made it look. Seriously, it reminds me of the default Windows XP "Fisher Price" interface. I think their marketing department is trying to design a GUI that appeals to four-year olds.

I used Office 2007 for all of two hours about a year ago (Beta RC2) and immediately uninstalled it because it drove me nuts. I tried it out again this week, but still can't get used to the retarded interface. Worst of all, Microsoft doesn't offer a "classic look" option!

Not only does it look horrible, but it also destroys productivity. Many of the old menu shortcuts (Alt+F for the file menu, for instance) no longer work and you're required to use the mouse to access the file menu options. This is a huge productivity waster.

-b0b
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #1 - Nov 9^th, 2007 at 11:05am That looks almost as fruity as Craig juggling assorted fruit in only a leotard....ALMOST.... X
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #2 - Nov 9^th, 2007 at 11:12am It's like I'm wearing nothing at all!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #3 - Nov 9^th, 2007 at 11:13am I suppose I should also mention that 2007 is a massive resource hog. Outlook takes up nearly 100MB of RAM just idling. BAH! -b0b (...considers uninstalling. Again.)
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #4 - Nov 9^th, 2007 at 12:23pm what the hell does it need 100MB for!? yeah uninstall fo sho.
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #5 - Nov 9^th, 2007 at 12:44pm open office ftw
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #6 - Nov 9^th, 2007 at 12:49pm Open Office can blow me. -b0b (...for realz, yo.)
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Re: Microsoft Office 2007
Reply #7 - Nov 11^th, 2007 at 9:36am

I find that it requires less clicks to change a setting in Word 2007 which is nice. Also if you don't use word all the time, you don't have to search all the menu's to find out how to insert a header or footer. It has some nice intellisense features but they can also trigger things that were unwanted. Like clicking at the bottom of your page to regain focus into Word 2007, it will insert a footer when that is not your intentions.

Overall, I don't think its an improvement and I think its a slight move in the direction of Mac wannabe or something.

I prefer the following version the most...

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #8 - Nov 11^th, 2007 at 9:48am Do you have any clue how old that is? -b0b (...points out that it is "Version 2002" for a reason!)
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Stick@school GeekCrew Pedestrian Offline Personal Text: Posts: 91	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #9 - Nov 12^th, 2007 at 11:14pm Yea, I got it from you 5 years ago and if you had it, that means it was probably 4 years old to begin with.
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #10 - Nov 12^th, 2007 at 11:52pm BURN!
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #11 - Nov 13^th, 2007 at 8:16am Good, now we can all agree that bob is old. /nod
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #12 - Nov 13^th, 2007 at 8:36am I'm young enough to keep your mom happy. -b0b (...realizes that isn't saying much.)
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Stick@school GeekCrew Pedestrian Offline Personal Text: Posts: 91	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #13 - Nov 13^th, 2007 at 8:38am for about 1 minute...
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Microsoft Office 2007 Reply #14 - Nov 13^th, 2007 at 8:40am Hey, one minute is long enough for me. You don't think I'm in this for her benefit, do you? -b0b (...always wins the race!)
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