Microsoft office 2007 SP2 is out

[wildman4god]

Why would I mention this on a Linux forum you ask, well because this service pack include support for ODF, yes that's right Microsoft is including and open source (and industry standard) format in their office suite, this will go along way in improving compatibility between open office (or any other office suite) and Microsoft office.

[Pasdar]

Good stuff. :popcorn:

[mamamia88]

too bad i installed it too many times and now my activation code isn't good anymore, and i refuse to go through customer service

[Methuselah]

I use Office 2007 at work and it's terrible.
It's a stupid self-obsessed redesign where obvious things from previous versions were changed into indecipherble little dingbats that you have to click to get a dialog to do what you always did before.
Basically, it just wastes time because it's the same program but you have to relearn where everything is.

[marco123]

Why would I mention this on a Linux forum you ask, well because this service pack include support for ODF, yes that's right Microsoft is including and open source (and industry standard) format in their office suite, this will go along way in improving compatibility between open office (or any other office suite) and Microsoft office.

Let's hope it works out well then. Not many in the open source community trust Microsoft an inch. The first thing I thought was: "What's the angle? What are they going to try to do?" :(

Cheers, Marco.

[regonzal]

I can vouch for this, it opens the odt format seamlessly.

[marco123]

I can vouch for this, it opens the odt format seamlessly.

Cool. So I can pay £100 for a piece of software that can open .odt :)

Seriously though, it's the other way we need the interoperability to go, so that OOo can open and save to .doc seamlessly. Or, even better, just scrap all but open formats, now that would be progress.

Cheers, Marco.

[MysticGold04]

I use Office 2007 at work and it's terrible.
It's a stupid self-obsessed redesign where obvious things from previous versions were changed into indecipherble little dingbats that you have to click to get a dialog to do what you always did before.
Basically, it just wastes time because it's the same program but you have to relearn where everything is.

I have it here at work too. I really like O2K or 2003 much better.
Nice to see that M$ is letting Open source solutions in the door. We'll see how long that lasts though.

[Giant Speck]

I have it here at work too. I really like O2K or 2003 much better.
Nice to see that M$ is letting Open source solutions in the door. We'll see how long that lasts though.

Oh, yeah, didn't you hear? As soon as enough people buy and download Office, Microsoft will remove the feature. Because if everyone's using Office again, why need support for .odt?

[TheLions]

Oh, yeah, didn't you hear? As soon as enough people buy and download Office, Microsoft will remove the feature. Because if everyone's using Office again, why need support for .odt?
:lolflag:

[SuperSonic4]

Oh, yeah, didn't you hear? As soon as enough people buy and download Office, Microsoft will remove the feature. Because if everyone's using Office again, why need support for .odt?

+1, that's exactly what I was thinking

[Methuselah]

I have it here at work too. I really like O2K or 2003 much better.
Nice to see that M$ is letting Open source solutions in the door. We'll see how long that lasts though.


Yes, I really don't see the value of the new interface.
Text is often more communicative than icons when the concepts are subtle.
Sure, once you figure out that the little decorative square opens 'Font Properties' you can get some work done but it was much more natural for me to discover this under a text menu.

[Daveski]

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It's a stupid self-obsessed redesign where obvious things from previous versions were changed into indecipherble little dingbats that you have to click to get a dialog to do what you always did before.
Basically, it just wastes time because it's the same program but you have to relearn where everything is.

So they can keep peddling 'training' courses?

[pwnst*r]

i strictly use it for work, but in a corp environment, 2007 is much better than 03 for me. i prefer this interface. Outlook alone is worth the upgrade.

[darrelljon]

I wonder how much of this is down to a the number of users who use Office out of the box compared to how many install updates.