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Office 2007
Microsoft's newest version of their flagship productivity software suite made some radical changes in how a user interacts with a piece of software. Gone are the toolbars and menubars of yesterday, replaced with the 'ribbon', a single tabbed panel mixing buttons, menus and control applets. Microsoft has historically been in favor of using new (supposedly) more user friendly user-interface options -- for example, their task-based panel and customizable 'cool bars' -- but has the ribbon gone to far? Even if it has, are we stuck with it?
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Original Air Date: Mar 24, 2007
This Week's Links
- Test-Drive Office 2007
- Microsoft's Office 2007 Page
- Anil Dash's Opinion on the Office 2007 Changes
- A Screenshot Tour of the new Office UI
- Office 2007 Changes Opinion by Brett Thomas
- C|Net's Office 2007 Resource
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