Vista and Office 2007

Peter Griffin’s blog on Vista, remninds me to share my own experiences.  The poor bastard tried running it on 512 MB memory.  I’ve got it running on a new PC nicely with 2 GB memory.  My rule of thumb is to always double the default amount of memory a new machine comes with.

So far Vista has been pretty good.  Minor things like showing the speed of a file copy/move and no of files remaining are useful. The whole look/feel is good also.  Have had problems with printer drivers though.  A lot of products are not yet ready for Vista so rushing in can backfire.

But while overall I like Vista, can I just say how much I hate Office 2007.  Nothing is where it should be.  It’s attempts to be helpful are frustrating to say the least.  After 12+ years of a standard look and feel to Office producsts, that is all gone.  I can’t do half of what I used to be able to do because I can’t find the effing commands.

Please can someone out there tell me there is a button you can push to make Office 2007 appear like Office 2003?  That would be a life saver.

Oh and don’t even start me off on the new file formats.  Grrrr. 

I hate Office 2007 so much I’ll probably put off getting a new laptop just to avoid having to migrate to Office 2007.