Supposedly the revamp of Office into Office 2007 was based on some incredible amount of hours of videotape of how real users used Office. Their goal was to make it much better. They knew people would have to totally relearn, but figured they would have a much better product in the end.
Has that been your experience with the product?
I like the new Office UI after getting used to where everything is. But it's such a tremendous resource hog that any user experience is gone. Why should it take a couple of minutes to start Outlook, and when I'm trying to do other work while it's starting it steals focus back three times!
Has that been your experience with the product?
It wasn’t a matter of totally relearning, but it did require getting used to the spatial differences and the logic of the new layout. O2007 also has some nice features that came in handy for producing academic papers for my MBA classes such as way it handles citations and revision tracking.
Once you get up the curve, it’s a fine product and getting up the curve wasn’t that bad.