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Re:That’s it, we’re quitting by run4yourlives on Saturday March 26, 2011 @01:26PM (#2372621)
It's funny, because from my perspective as a casual office user, I actually thought the menus made things a little easier to use, even if I needed to "re-learn" where things were.

My wife however, much more of a "power" office user, has completely sworn off of them. This is a person that knew pretty much where every menu item on word and excel was by memory. Her experience has been destroyed, so much that I needed to re-install 2003 on all the machines that she would use.

Most certainly tripping on couches.

Re:That’s it, we’re quitting by epochwolf on Saturday March 26, 2011 @01:47PM (#2372672)
As a casual user, it's made Word usable when I need to use it.
Re:That’s it, we’re quitting by tankenmate on Saturday March 26, 2011 @07:18PM (#2373508)
This is the engineering equivalent of offering discounts to new users, while ignoring loyal customers; it leads to churn, but not much progress for day to day users (i.e. the biggest users of the software). Applications that I like the most have "levels" of the user interface; you can switch to a more complete, complex, user interface once you get more used to the program.
Re:That’s it, we’re quitting by adolfojp on Saturday March 26, 2011 @03:57PM (#2372999)