I know that's Microsoft's claim, but it's a lame one. How many new users are there compared to old users? And it's not like the original menus were all that difficult. The new ones give you no advantage I can see – they just take up a lot of screen real estate and make finding things extremely difficult for folks who already know their way around.
The real mistake was making the old menus unavailable If we could have flipped the old ones on there'd be no complaints. But MS always pulls this garbage, with all their products. Every new OS, for instance, uses new terminology and moves stuff around for no good reason.
Perhaps you didn't read too closely, Hittman, (which seems likely) but, let me reiterate. I TEACH COMPUTERS using MSOffice 2003 AND 2007 to newbies. I SEE the difference in how new computer users are quicker at picking up Office 2007 than they are Office 2003. Regardless of Microsoft's claims, I am seeing it FIRST HAND.
But, no one forced you to upgrade. You can happily go back to previous versions, or better yet, just use OpenOffice, GoogleDocs, or another free program so you don't have to be stuck complaining about a product you don't have to have.
