After watching a coworker spend some time figuring out how to open a box of Office 2007 Pro I understand Joel’s frustrations. I don’t know why Microsoft decided to get all cute with their boxes, but isn’t the idea to make it as quick and painless to get to the product for your customer who just shelled out hundreds of dollars? The Office 2007 box looks like a book with its curved edge. If it looks like a book I’d assume it would open like a book. I guess not. For the most part, I’ve liked using Office 2007. Outlook works quite well and I really like Excel 2007.
Joel also had this to say about Vista. I couldn’t agree more.
I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone asks, my advice is to stay with Windows XP (and to purchase new systems with XP pre-installed).
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