Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Mar 2006 21:44 UTC
While Microsoft faces a host of challenges in maintaining its market share numbers and persuading customers to upgrade to its 2007 Office System suite of products when released in the second half of this year, its competitors face an equally daunting task of winning users away from Office 2007 and growing their numbers. Heading the list of challenges facing Microsoft is the fact that Office 2007 has a new user interface, which could require extensive staff retraining at a significant cost, as well as a new file format, which has the potential to create compatibility issues.
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2005-06-29
Business's complain about retraining costs...
Seriously, in the long run (I know it's not in their vobabulary), I think the new UI will be much more intuitive for people. It certainly looks to me like its easier to distinguish things in their new UI over the old toolbars (where everything just looks the same).