Comments on: From Vista to Windows 7

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:56:28 +0000

I upgraded an older laptop that Vista would have crippled. Windows 7 runs like a dream. It is the Windows Vista that I *wanted* to like.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:54:51 +0000

There may be an element of old dog and new tricks, but I just don’t find the ribbons logical – insert row isn’t on the Insert ribbon in Excel, for example, and I can’t predict where a function or item is going to be.

I would have been fine with two options, old menus v. new ribbons and, say, a statement from Ms that there were intending to phase out menus in Office 2012, but no, there’s Microsoft’s way and that’s it.

So personally, I now use use OpenOffice.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:57:19 +0000

I love the Ribbon. Makes using and teaching Office to my kids much easier. Can’t wait for Office 2010 when I can get a 64 Bit version.
I upgraded 3 PCs to 7, one in place and 2 clean installs. I had 0 problems with any of them. The tools Microsoft provides for backing up and restoring data worked great.

By: susabelle

susabelle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:42:02 +0000

I’m with you, Andrew, it’s not usually the operating system I have issues with, it’s the massive changes to other software, like the whole “ribbon” thing on MSOffice. What a waste of time to change something that worked so well before. I now have to hunt for everything I need to do, and don’t even get me started on the new keyboard commands for all of that ribbon stuff that we are trying to teach our disabled students.