It would be interesting to see some screenshots of the new Office.
Personally I see no point in continually upgrading to the latest version of Office as I find that Office 2000 does everything I want to, as the new version probably doesn't have any new features that I would use, but Im sure it will use much more processing power, and consume more disk space!
A podcast (pre-recorded radio available as MP3) I was listening to the other day made me smile, they were talking about Office and how they keep bringing out new versions, but how the basic interface and functionallity hardly changes at all. They refered back to an old DOS spreadsheet program called VisiCalc [1981] which has all the basic functionallity of Excel in only 27kb!
Lotus who own the copyright have made it legal to download. You can now dowload VisiCalc for free from:
http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
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