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Pres Gralla gives Office 2010 two thumbs up
Posted on May 5th, 2010 at 21:49 1 commentPreston Gralla knows his stuff. He says that Office 2010 “will truly make a difference in the way that I work.”
The main attraction, as far as I’m concerned, is the Outlook makeover that makes it far easier to cut through e-mail overload and keep up with your ever-expanding group of contacts on social networking sites.
I’m not as impressed as Pres with the Outlook improvements, but they are considerable – just as Outlook 2007 was a considerable improvement over Outlook 2003. I haven’t yet swallowed the Kool-Aid and changed to Office 2010 full-time, but I may. And if I do, there’s only one reason why: Outlook.
Ed Bott has a detailed look at how to get Office 2010 cheap. Ed’s absolutely right – if Windows 7 taught us anything, it’s that people who buy the new product early get the best prices. Nuff said.
Oh. For those of you who have asked, Ed and I are NOT doing a Special Edition Using Office 2010. I may dip my toe back in the Office writing milieu, but for now, there’s nothing firm.
One response to “Pres Gralla gives Office 2010 two thumbs up”
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Hmmm. Lemme see: the main reason I shoudl abandon MS Office 2003 for the Ribbon-menu-infested Office 2010, with software bloat that makes 2010 twice as large and far SLOWER than v2003… is a little giddyap improvement in Outlook?
Alarm bells are ringing. I’d rather gargle broken glass than abandon Office 2003 for anything later in the MS Office line.
I miiiight be tempted away for something in the OpenOffice(.org) line, though. As the old joke goes: “The box said I needed Office 2003 or better… so I installed OpenOffice 3.x”
MS needs to stop treating its victim/customers like forcefed prisoners, and we desperately need a new set of jargon:
“upSETgrade”: To hate the latest version
“upandoutgrade”: to abandon a product line in favor of its competitor
“upchuckgrade”/”backslide”: An inferior version with a version number indicating it came out after the latest GOOD version
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