IMHO, Excel went down the tubes when they got past 2003. I didn’t like the GUI, (keep it simple, I’m working here!), and I have always hated the way something that worked in the last version doesn’t quite in the next. I refused to buy a newer version to open the “x” (docx, xlsx) files, and just downloaded Open Office.
I know. You want to know what REALLY infuriated me recently? I work in a hospital, and we have to still use Internet Explorer 7 enterprise wide, because we have system critical systems that have not been validated to work with IE-8 and up. You install it and have a problem, the vendor refuses to help and tells you to downgrade. So here we are, really far off the mark. Same with OS...we have to stay on XP for much the same reasons, though we are agressively trying to move to Windows 7 (pretty much because we have to)
But here is what burned me. I had to look up a solution to a Microsoft problem, using their OWN help, which steers you in 2010 to their OWN website, and...it refused to let me enter the site unless I upgraded from IE7.
Unbelievable.
Sure, I could get Chrome or Mozilla, but...IE7 on their own website is refused?
I was hyperventilating. Sometimes I detest Microsoft.