Office 2000 is good to go
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Office 2000 is good to go
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#2I’d be quite content to work with 2000 or 97 indefinitely.
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#3For basic document editing is as good now as ever. And it eats way less resources than the more modern conterparts.
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#4I’d be quite content to work with 2000 or 97 indefinitely.
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#5I still miss the "Binder" application in Office 2000...
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#6I can't think of anything in my office usage that wasn't available in 2000. Admittedly I've not used Outlook for a fair few years.
I still pay £30 or so a year for the annual licence when it comes on sale just to be able to open docs natively though!
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#7I still prefer 97, runs great in a VM, faster than LibreOffice, save the text with copy and paste into my blog with IE6. I can almost smell the shiny Plymouth Horizon on the parking lot.
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#8I believe some around 2000 Office and Windows reached their peaks of usability. They seemed to designed to get stuff done.
Since then it seems they crammed more and more "intelligent" functions into the software that made them less predictable. I still don't know under what circumstances Windows Search finds things sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. Lately Outlook search feels random. Teams search is a complete mess. When I write stuff in Word, Word seems very opinionated and messes up formatting all the time. Saving things to our disk is also an ordeal because they are pushing OneDrive.
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#9Sinofsky was pretty grounded in the early days but I've heard during the Windows 8 development he was burying his head in the sand, surrounding himself with yes-men and pretending like all (internal) feedback about the idiotic design was coming from people "afraid of change" (yes, literally replied that to someone that sent him honest feedback about the product).
The folks that came up with the "remove the start button" design in Windows 8 where the same PMs & designers that came up with the Ribbon in Office; and he knew early feedback about the Ribbon was mostly negative and yet in a short time it became very popular; so he must've thought the same thing was happening with the start menu (but as we know now, it wasn't, it was just very bad design - not "ahead of its time", just broken and idiotic).
Re: Office 2000 is good to go
#10I can't think of anything in my office usage that wasn't available in 2000. Admittedly I've not used Outlook for a fair few years. I still pay £30 or so a year for the annual licence when it comes on sale just to be able to open docs natively though!
Real time co-authoring with the cloud save locations is a killer for me as it got rid of a bunch of " final copy (3) FINAL - Jim's edits" crap. I think that was 2016 initially I think but it's gotten improvements since. But for single user "I want to edit a document" there isn't much to add since 2000.