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Microsoft's despairing honesty
Have you seen the ads for Office 2007? I think they're a hoot! They are mainly an admission that no-one actually likes the new programs. The interface confuses people; the menus have disappeared, so even experienced users don't know where anything is any more. And the new formats (a sort of bastard version of odf, I think) are incompatible with the old .doc, .xls and .ppt ones so that you have to download a plugin to read them (well, at least that's provided free).

And Microsoft then brazenly declare that all this actually constitutes an improvement. Talk about user-friendliness!
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