What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

[Andrew Crystall]

On 24 Apr 2008 at 20:55, Max Battcher wrote:

> Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Open Source and use a number of 
> applications that I like better in spite of their commercial equivalents 
> (Firefox, Lightningbird (Thunderbird + Lightning plugin), Vim, Inkscape, 
> ...), but OO.org, to me, seems the lesser choice to Office.  Given the 
> choice I'd much rather work in Office than OO.org.

At a workplace where I had to use Office 07, it cut my productivity 
in it by over a third, and created no end of issues. Managing 
formating was such a problem I ended up copy/pasting between two 
documents a lot to force the precise text formating I wanted.

Also, ironically, I can't stand thunderbird and use pegasus mail.

AndrewC