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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft: Old Versions Are Rubbish
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>| Another sign that Microsoft have screwed up Office 2007. They admit
>| that it's going to take the longest to learn for people that know the
>| older versions best. Considering the interface for office has been
>| nigh-on identical for the last 10 versions, a lot of people are going
>| to find themselves going "where is feature x now?" I know that's what
>| I'm experiencing with Office 2007. Moreover the people with the
>| expensive certifications in programming Office are going to find
>| themselves needing to enter into another long bout of (expensive)
>| retraining.
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> http://www.thepcspy.com/blog/microsoft_old_versions_are_rubbish
>
This is one major area where Microsoft can make some serious extra cash,
so they will. Charging to train people in their software is an
excellent idea, but only if they keep changing the software in order to
force the retraining.
>
> Related to:
>
> Microsoft and the Broken Window Theory of Economics
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>| While we don't usually report on anything Microsoft related (as it's
>| outside PCBurn's perview) this tidbit was too good for me to pass up.
>| Microsoft is reporting (at El Reg) that by releasing an operating system
>| it will magically create $40 Billion dollars rather than simply suck
>| money out of Europe. They've done this by positing a story somewhat
>| similar to the theory of "broken window" economics.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| In short form, a boy breaks a window and his father, the shop keeper,
>| then has to have it replaced. It is a given to the people looking on
>| the scene that this is good becuase it keeps the glazier employed in
>| making windows.
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> http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=1788
>
>
> Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
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>| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
>| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
>| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
>| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
>| ever disaster.
> `----
>
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
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