Some people dislike the fact that Office 2007 comes with a big fat ribbon bar on the top row taking up quite a lot of real estate in their precious viewing area. If you’re one of them, this office addin can get you what you want by replacing the ribbon bar with those classic menus seen in office 2003. The pic below shows an example where there’s no more ribbon bar in Microsoft Office Word 2007.
Update
The office addin link above (to geocities) is now dead. A better option is to try this
[...] rather than making people feel cool just because the software introduces some shiny buttons and ribbon bars hanging on top of the screen shouting out for attention. Oh, I’m talking about Microsoft [...]
There is no logical reason to switch to office 2k7. I know from my own experience, that most of users don’t need to pay for commercial office suite, and many of them don’t need it at all. We’re talking much with our clients about cost-efficiency and open-source software. It’s not good for us, cause we have no benefits from software, that we’re not selling, but it’s better for customers – no costs, no licence management, no problem. The efects are shocking. Let’s take office suite as an example – we have installed OpenOffice.org suite over 3000 times last year and there wasn’t any sold copy of Microsoft’s Office suite (there was only reinstalations). Interesting, isn’t? BTW: Did you ever asked yourself a question like: If Microsoft’s software is so wonderful and perfect as they told, so why we have to download and install thousands of updates? Isn’t it a proof, that this software is full of bugs and errors?
@M4573R
I agree with you that for personal use and small businesses, open office, abiword and google docs are often sufficient to meet their needs and they are all free. So who buys the Office Suite then? Corporates and consumers who don’t know much about open source softwares + google docs. Corporates has the money to buy Microsoft’s products + updates + new versions and it’s sometimes really just harder to switch to another software when the whole system has been built around Microsoft products.
As for your comment about updates, ALL software needs an update sooner or later regardless of how they might have function currently since things changes as time changes and updates/fixes/enhancements are inevitable. Nothing is perfect.