Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Goodbye Office 2007 http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Goodbye Office 2007 http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:31 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:31 GMT Rev9 17 -17 -1 Coffeehouse - Goodbye Office 2007 Dear Office 2007,

Today is my last day with you.  I believe it is now time for us to part ways.

I know our time together was short, but I must tell you that our time together did not meet the expectations set by our first few hours of bliss. 

We moved fast at first, and then oh did we ever move so slow. You slowed down my machine... To the point where I could type faster than the screen could respond.  You made it impossible for me to do work.

And then the arguing and frustration began.  I would curse thee every few minutes.  My mouse would stop responding as I yelled at you more and more.  I only hope that our friendship is not beyond repair.

Windows Desktop Search 3.0... Oh how slow and bloated are thee!  Oh how you are missing much oft used functionality from your younger (2.0) days.  Oh how it saddens me to see you go but i feel that it is best for both of us.

Perhaps we shall meet again someday under better circumstances.

Yours, daytrip00

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Cybermagellan wrote:
Oh what will you ever use for an office suite....please say OpenOffice so I can laugh.


I stopped using the beta early to go back to 2003...  not so much because I didn't like it, but because swapping back and forth had gotten painful (repair every time I launched either if I ran the other before).  I needed the stability of 2003 for my schoolwork, so 2007 had to go.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/a0edff125611447594059dec0041e5b0#a0edff125611447594059dec0041e5b0 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:28:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/a0edff125611447594059dec0041e5b0#a0edff125611447594059dec0041e5b0 JonathonW 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CannotResolveSymbol/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Goodbye Office 2007 As much as I love the ribbon, I too am getting ready to ditch Office 2007 and go back to 2003 just because of speed.  I hate taking notes w/ OneNote and not knowning which bullet point i'm on because its so slow.  And the stupid indexer sucks.  It slows my machine way down.
And yes even OOO in all its painful slowness is faster then Office 2007

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/61d6cfd7be08401280049dec0041e601#61d6cfd7be08401280049dec0041e601 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:02:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/61d6cfd7be08401280049dec0041e601#61d6cfd7be08401280049dec0041e601 Outlaw 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Outlaw/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Goodbye Office 2007
Outlaw wrote:
why are you guys having problems like this?  i'm using 2007 b2tr and its working perfectly!  its not quite as fast as 2003, but it is beta software and i wouldn't expect it to be.


I was only having trouble because I was trying to run it side by side with 2003 (excluding Oulook).  It worked for a while, then it got frustrating.

Once it started, it ran pretty well the whole time I had it installed.  I still needed to do most real work in 2003, though (there's a reason they put "not for production use" in the EULA for beta software).

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/7d33f0ca7af748779e959dec0041e62a#7d33f0ca7af748779e959dec0041e62a Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:25:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/7d33f0ca7af748779e959dec0041e62a#7d33f0ca7af748779e959dec0041e62a JonathonW 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CannotResolveSymbol/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Goodbye Office 2007 I was pretty excited to install Office 2007 myself.
But the first time I created a document with it, it crashed.

Now I know there is crash recovery stuff built in, but guess what each time i recovered and tried to save my document, it would crash again.

So i tried to create a new document and paste all the text from the previous document into it to save it, but guess what that would crash it too. It seemed to have a certain disliking maybe for what was written in the document Wink

Eventually I had to retype the whole thing again just so that i could save it Sad

I even tried using the new blog posting feature in word, and somehowit doesnt seem to work with the latest blogger beta.

And the speed, dont ask me about it....

If this continues i will have to switch back to office 2003 Sad

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daytrip00 wrote:


Windows Desktop Search 3.0... Oh how slow and bloated are thee! 


Try Copernic Desktop Search. I fnd it to be the best out there. Its also super fast.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/8f5ee3a8206a4f9e9b769dec0041e6a2#8f5ee3a8206a4f9e9b769dec0041e6a2 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:15:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250751-Goodbye-Office-2007/8f5ee3a8206a4f9e9b769dec0041e6a2#8f5ee3a8206a4f9e9b769dec0041e6a2 andokai 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/andokai/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Goodbye Office 2007
Cybermagellan wrote:
Oh what will you ever use for an office suite....please say OpenOffice so I can laugh.


I use MS Works 8 on my laptop at home.  It spell checks, formats and prints, can do sums, drawings and even ... drum roll .... SAVE!

I have Office 2003 at work but I've not doing anything I could do in Works.  I think the whole Office vs OpenOffice debate is futile as most Windows machines come with Works and the users don't really need anything more than that.

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Long live Office 2007! Works 8...ha!

Not sure if you realize this but for quite some time now Works has been based on Word 2003, it simply has a highly ANNOYING template set that runs on top of it.  

So even if "most windows pcs" came with work(not true in any regard) it would not have what you have.


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The one thing that stuck in my mind was the 'Home and Student' edition:  now available to non-students who want a word processor at home. 

Cost in the UK :  £80

Was that a typo?  Are they sure it's not £180?  If it's only £80 (for Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote) then I'm definitely getting it (even though the UK is still getting ripped off with the $ -> £ proce conversion).

Herbie

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And to be honest I havn't since run into any problems!

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But since I got Office 2007, and use the ribbon, I now know how to do a bunch of stuff in those apps (especially in Powerpoint) that I never knew before. I know you can do a lot of the features in 2003, but 2007 is just so much more intuitive, once you learn how the Ribbon works. Much better than sorting through 20 "Main Menu" options and a host of Dialogs.

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amd_duron wrote:

So even if "most windows pcs" came with work(not true in any regard) it would not have what you have.


Since HP, Dell, Lenovo and Acer are the top selling PC manufacturers for 2006Q3 (in that order) and they all package MS Works on their machines I believe that most PC's do come with Works. As for "it would not have what you have"??

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j0217995 wrote:
I don't know what is going on, but ever since I installed Office 2007 B2R or whatever it is officially called my computer runs so slow that it is barely worth using it. In fact I can run Windows XP w/ Office 2003 in a VM on the linux boot same laptop faster then a native Windows XP w/ Office 2007 installed in it.


This was essentially my experience....

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