Comments on: Microsoft Products: Word 2007 http://livingtheliminal.com/2006/06/30/microsoft-products-word-2007/ reports from the land of betwixt and between Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: LtL http://livingtheliminal.com/2006/06/30/microsoft-products-word-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-6554 LtL Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:53:12 +0000 http://thoughts.livingtheliminal.com/archives/110#comment-6554 <p>An amusing post when I look back at it three years later and after switching so thoroughly to Mac OS X that I'm not even planning on installing Parallels or setting up Windows as a Boot Camp partition on my Macbook Pro. Actually, I think by October of 2006 I'd gotten myself an iMac and started the long slow climb toward computer platform sanity.</p> An amusing post when I look back at it three years later and after switching so thoroughly to Mac OS X that I’m not even planning on installing Parallels or setting up Windows as a Boot Camp partition on my Macbook Pro. Actually, I think by October of 2006 I’d gotten myself an iMac and started the long slow climb toward computer platform sanity.

]]> By: LtL http://livingtheliminal.com/2006/06/30/microsoft-products-word-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-459 LtL Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:55:36 +0000 http://thoughts.livingtheliminal.com/archives/110#comment-459 <p>It will actually work with Windows XP - of course, you may talk me into getting rid of Windows before they release Office 2007!</p> It will actually work with Windows XP – of course, you may talk me into getting rid of Windows before they release Office 2007!

]]> By: sandro http://livingtheliminal.com/2006/06/30/microsoft-products-word-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-458 sandro Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:40:41 +0000 http://thoughts.livingtheliminal.com/archives/110#comment-458 <p>Peter, I give you that the new UI is pretty (really it's the <em>only</em> thing Vista has going for it). But damn that's a lot of real-estate to give up for a little bling. I mean in 1-page full-screen mode, you'll never see the little swoosh thing, and besides you;ll need a new laptop to run Vista (Office 97 is Vista only right?), and a 17" screen to fit all that UI mess onto.</p> <p>Sometimes Apple is no better (Aperture seems designed to sell 30" screens, and it runs like a dog on 2 year old laptops), but at least I don't get that dirty feeling....</p> Peter, I give you that the new UI is pretty (really it’s the only thing Vista has going for it). But damn that’s a lot of real-estate to give up for a little bling. I mean in 1-page full-screen mode, you’ll never see the little swoosh thing, and besides you;ll need a new laptop to run Vista (Office 97 is Vista only right?), and a 17″ screen to fit all that UI mess onto.

Sometimes Apple is no better (Aperture seems designed to sell 30″ screens, and it runs like a dog on 2 year old laptops), but at least I don’t get that dirty feeling….

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