Comments on: Yet another feature yanked from the NEW Microsoft Office 2007

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:55:31 +0000

I have built an addon that puts a new button in the Insert ribbon tab:
Just extract it to some folder and run setup:

http://rapidshare.com/files/219462848/WordScannerAddin.rar

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

and it only took me 15 minutes to figure out to click on the pretty icon in the top left corner …..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

It's introduced in this Washington Times Editorial.

It looks very nice.

Kevin

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Microsoft likes to call that button the “Office Orb…just like the changed they Start button in Vista to the “Windows Orb”. 8 years and billions in R&D went into those orbs that decreased all of our productivity!

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Thanks Kevin for the link to the article. Looks like a very interesting application!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

It was an absolutely pointless feature – get over yourself. Boo hoo, so you had to copy them from your computer first. Just look over the rest of the features offered in the application and you will see what a bloody good job microsoft has done for once.

An why on Earth was this the first time you were familiarise yourself with the industry standard in word processing over a year since its release? If you are offering advice on the technology you should have known what features were removed and understand why they were. A line had to be drawn somewhere regarding how many features there are in an application and how large the files will be. Office is HUMUNGOUS as it is – and for good reason – with all the new features there had to be some slack put into the system somewhere.

I am thoroughly disappointed in your ignorance as a proffesional in the field. Brand new product? It’s a year and 2 months old; practically stoneage.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Tho I do use office 2k7, I sure am glad I didnt pay for it. Not worth the money when there are many free/better alternatives

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I love it when they change something that everyone is completely familiar with like the “File” button to a meaningless icon just for the hell of it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

What industry are you in? First, OOXML or Ecma is A standard but not THE INDUSTRY standard. Big difference. Second, many people/organizations do NOT support OOXML document standards, this only screams that Office 2007 as a whole is not an industry standard, and that, in fact, it is the previous versions of office that are standard. Just because its Microsoft doesn’t make it standard.

I am thoroughly disappointed in[sic] your ignorance as a “Smart Computer User”. As a computer ENGINEER (I may not be smart I’ll admit) but I’ll tell you two things, first, 1 year is NOT stone age for software, it takes many years before things become standard. Second if it makes life more difficult for the user, it was a poor design decision by the Software Engineers. Kudos for being wrong on all counts.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

snip < Just look over the rest of the features offered in the application and you will see what a bloody good job microsoft has done for once. > snip

Just what are those features??
We, as an office, have switched back to 2003 and one of the main reasons was “insert picture from scanner”.