Friday, August 14, 2009

Microsoft Office 2007 is crap.

I just went to print a document on a friend's computer. I use a previous version of Office. My friend had 2007 but she never used it yet (not computer savvy). After using Word for over 15 years you think I would be able to figure out where they moved the print button. The UI is so ridiculous it took up five minutes searching around to find the stupid print icon.

FILE. PRINT.

Every other piece of software copied this model because everyone is used to it.

Whoever changed this is an idiot. Sorry. They are.

A huge loss of productivity in every office where every person that gets this the first time has to take 5 minutes (or longer if not computer savvy) to figure out how to print a document in Office 2007.

So if you're thinking of getting Office 2007 - consider that was just the print button. How many other things are your employees going to be trying to find and wasting time?

Why, Microsoft? Why?????