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Reviewing the new Microsoft Office
Walt Mossberg reviews the new Microsoft Office. It appears that Microsoft has replaced the old, bloated four rows of buttons, menus, and icons with a new, bloated five rows of buttons, menus, and icons called the Ribbon.
The old toolbars were customizable; the Ribbon, Mossberg says, is for the most part not customizable.
Another pain, for bit-literate users, are the file formats. From the review:
Windows and Macintosh computers won't be able to read these new file types without special conversion software. The new version can, however, read files created in the older versions, on both Windows and Mac, without any conversion software.
Expect much more on these topics (interface, file formats, and Microsoft) in my upcoming book on bit literacy.
(Thanks, Phil!)
