I get to be cranky now that I'm old

[snousle]

Coincident with turning 40: upgrading to Office 2007. I guess now that I'm an old man, I can rage incoherently at the seemingly arbitrary rearrangement of a menu layout that has been more or less constant for twenty years. Cognitively speaking, installing this upgrade is like having a minor stroke. This is way more irritating than I had ever imagined it would be.

Comments

[bigredpaul.livejournal.com]

I use http://openoffice.org/ for my office application needs - does everything MS Office does, and is free!

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

Ditto - free was more important to me, but it does use a more traditional menu system as opposed to the Office '07 "ribbon". As I have no esoteric demands, it works fine for me. Someone who depends on some of Office's more outre features might not be able to switch.

[wolfstoy.livejournal.com]

I've heard that about 2007. I hear that once you get used to it, it isn't too bad at all. However, for our folks at work, I've kept us on 2003. In the future though, I can foresee us going to 2010.

[qnetter]

After a very brief adjustment period, I find the ribbon to be a much more useful model than menus.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

I'm still teaching Office 2003 to my students. The State of Washington owns all of our computers, and has refused to upgrade any of the state systems.

[darkphuque.livejournal.com]

Happy 40th... Oh to be 40 again....LOL

[dhpbear.livejournal.com]

I had the same experience when "upgrading" from XP to Win7 - many just plain ANNOYING changes. It lasted for all of two days before I wiped the disk and reinstalled XP (which I had to do anyway :) )

[fogbear.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, my friend!

"installing this upgrade is like having a minor stroke"

Have you considered going into marketing for Microsoft?

[ednixon.livejournal.com]

Congrats. I remember being 40. It was 1992. I more enjoyed 1994 and later. You will too.

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

Ahh, you old fart!

I got a copy of WIndoze 98 if you wanna use something you remember.

[beastbriskett.livejournal.com]

There's a menu layout in Office?
I always thought they just kept slapping obtuse icons on the toolbar at each iteration.

-an old paper n pencil codger.