Is the download link f*cked or what ?

Dont know but whats really diffrent in Office to want to download it :s

Im sticking with 2003 for a long time as its totally spot on

Quote from: Poison_UKDont know but whats really diffrent in Office to want to download it :s

Im sticking with 2003 for a long time as its totally spot on

pfft. new fangled technology.  Im still using Office2000 as my MS choice

Give it a try. Youll see.

Look and feel is a lot better than 2003, and there has been a redesign of the old file menu edit etc menus - they dont exist any more.

And Outlook 2007 isnt the buggy mess outlook 2003 is (So far)

Quote from: BXGTi16VGive it a try. Youll see.

I intend to, though only after ive managed to get Vista working properly, it doesnt seem to like my onboard network card despite it being on the support list :\

QuoteLook and feel is a lot better than 2003, and there has been a redesign of the old file menu edit etc menus - they dont exist any more.

That worries me from a support point of view, a lot of end users dont like change.  They are used to the old style.  

QuoteAnd Outlook 2007 isnt the buggy mess outlook 2003 is (So far)

you cant make it _more_ buggy.  Office2k3 is irritating its love of messing up the registry and generally losing settings.  At work we regularly remove the reg keys for office as MS havent produced us a fix.  

No need to worry with regards to support, as Microsoft have a "old > new" converter tool, so if someone knows how to do something in the old menus but cant figure it out on the new ones, they can tell this help tool what they want to do and itll show them quite a cool idea.

Quote from: M3ta7h3adNo need to worry with regards to support, as Microsoft have a "old > new" converter tool, so if someone knows how to do something in the old menus but cant figure it out on the new ones, they can tell this help tool what they want to do and itll show them quite a cool idea.

you need to do support for a UK $Big $Defence $Contractor and youll revise your opinion of "easy"

lol, I do support office for some students in work

I had to teach a guy who is meant to be doing his 70-270 Qualification how to copy and paste, it took 15 minutes, and he still had to ask me at the end of it where the CTRL button was.

Now that... is support where your wishing there was a *punch caller in face violently with a spikey boxing glove* button on your phone.

Quote from: M3ta7h3adlol, I do support office for some students in work

Thats fine though, they are expecting to be taught, or at least learn.  Some of these people are actually gifted engineers, but cant figure out that "DRive not Accessable" means they should look to see if they have the network drives connected.  Or my personal favourite "I cant run x piece of software." when it isnt even installed.  

QuoteNow that... is support where your wishing there was a *punch caller in face violently with a spikey boxing glove* button on your phone.

Im advocating Audio Cock Technology for the next version of windows.

Rofl, oh hell yes. Youve got my sympathy. Teaching people who think they know it all is rather frustrating to say the least

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Quote from: BXGTi16VGive it a try. Youll see.

I intend to, though only after ive managed to get Vista working properly, it doesnt seem to like my onboard network card despite it being on the support list :\

QuoteLook and feel is a lot better than 2003, and there has been a redesign of the old file menu edit etc menus - they dont exist any more.

That worries me from a support point of view, a lot of end users dont like change.  They are used to the old style.  

QuoteAnd Outlook 2007 isnt the buggy mess outlook 2003 is (So far)

you cant make it _more_ buggy.  Office2k3 is irritating its love of messing up the registry and generally losing settings.  At work we regularly remove the reg keys for office as MS havent produced us a fix.  

It doesnt have such annoyances as changing from one VLAN to another on a laptop and not restarting causing annoying hangs when communicating with the exchange server - thats a major one for me with users on my lan who may be on one of 18 seperate vlans in a day (In an extreme case)

It also doesnt hold multiple logins opened to the exchange server, which is another annoying feature of 2k3, often requiring drastic action like granting the user special permissions on the information store.

Quote from: BXGTi16VIt doesnt have such annoyances as changing from one VLAN to another on a laptop and not restarting causing annoying hangs when communicating with the exchange server - thats a major one for me with users on my lan who may be on one of 18 seperate vlans in a day (In an extreme case)

It also doesnt hold multiple logins opened to the exchange server, which is another annoying feature of 2k3, often requiring drastic action like granting the user special permissions on the information store.

I share your frustration with the VLAN feature !

But with regard to the multiple logins thing do you mean multiple logins via outlook or multiple logins to the information store? I always have outlook running on my workstation and laptop and am able to sync my PDA over GPRS at the same time.

If you look at the logins to the IS in system manager you will probably see a lot of connections by one or more users - in my case it always seems to be one or two that are guilty.

In some cases it was down to them having too many shared clanedars etc opened, and in some cases a non service packed outlook 2003 - a lot of the time it was of an unknown cause - very annoying.

This seems to have gone away in 2007!