[Space Wrangler]

I'm really liking Office '07. As you said, there is a learning curve involved, but I think MS actually listened to its customers for a change. Once you get through the curve, it is very much an improvement in productivity.

Vista....well, what is there to say really? For the most part, it's eye candy. MS seems to be taking the marketing approach of hitting the home consumers on this one. I know of no corporate IT departments that even have evaluations scheduled for Vista. Server 2003 is still a long time in the pipeline, and without some major AD additions to take advantage of Vista, and Longhorn still at least a year away, there is no incentive at all to move the desktop environment over to Vista. Right now it's all downside...added hardware cost, productivity hits while users adjust to the learning curve, limited support, etc, etc. I think if we take the time machine to one year from today, we may start seeing some evaluations taking place, but after a year in the pipeline and XP will still be the predominant OS in the corporate world.

[George W. Bush]

Once you get through the curve, it is very much an improvement in productivity.

Even all us rabid M$ critics have to admit it: Office 2007 was done right. And retraining is an effort but doable in short order. Then people love it and productivity goes up markedly. In a large organization with, say, 20 office workers, maybe it means you don't have to hire that new employee. Given its omnipresence in American business, Office 2007 upgrades are pretty much a no-brainer, a question of when to upgrade, not whether to. Vista is not so compelling though.

The only question is why they didn't do this in Office 2003/2004. Still, they did it right and deserve the credit.