What I couldn't believe was that on the MS blog they were trying to say with a straight face that they HADN'T been copying Apple. The real knee slapper was that they link to a NY Times article that says Office 2007 is popular. My campus was forced to Office 2007 by our IT department and I haven't talked to anyone that likes it.
Interface is far too cluttered, and is WAY too high on the eye candy.
Office 2007 is a reason why OpenOffice is becoming more popular. The new interface is atrocious. I still haven’t decoded the underlying paradigm that would allow me to “postulate” where to find various commands and features.
Just locating the File menu is anti-intuitive in that you must click on the logo. Umm... Everyone I talk to has a story about discovering the File menu. It usually begins like this, “I was so frustrated so I started randomly clicking on everything.”