Re: Real World Advantages of Office / Word 2007 and Windows 7

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

The software component of our systems is not terribly complex, but it needs
to run on computers that may go all the way back as far as XP (we only just
dropped Win2000 from the supported list last year).  Since we can only load
Office on one system per seat, we've been using the versions that were
originally installed on the XP systems when they were new, hence the
multiple Words.  It's less of a bother to have a copy of Word on each
system we're testing on than to have to run back to one seat on one system
all the time.  The final editing and production work is still being done in
2007 on the Win7 system, because 2010 is on the Win8 system and there's no
way I'm doing real document work on a beta O/S.

Gene Kim-Eng


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Lisa G Wright <writingweb -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> Gene, that is pretty funny! I am lucky in that I no longer have to have  a
> bunch of different versions of things for what I work on now. I just live
> in the moment with what's set up on my work computer, so the differences
> with the other versions don't mean a lot in my world. The differences I DID
> note from version to version are minor and specific to individual
> functions, so I'm not wedded to one particular UI overall.
>
> Lisa
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> I currently have one XP32 system, two XP64 systems, one Win7-32 system
>> and another running the Win8-64 developer beta.  Office 2000, 2003, 2007
>> and 2010 are installed.  I jump back and forth between all, and don't find
>> the switch terribly confusing, but I'm not doing any actual document
>> production in 2010 that requires advanced features.  On 2007 and 2010, you
>> have a choice of which UI you want to use, and the "best" one is the one
>> you prefer.
>>
>> It strikes me as just plain goofy to be arguing over UIs in the versions
>> of Word that actually give you the option of using your choice of UIs.
>>
>

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