[jyl]

For this power Excel user, Office 2007 is nothing but aggravation. I've been using it for about 6 months. The only way I've been able to deal w/ the stupid new interface is to pin my most-used commands to the Quick Access ribbon up top. Now Excel gives me a warning that my Quick Access ribbon has become too large and recommends that I reset it.

That said, Office X for Mac is just as bad, maybe worse.

For work, we are locked to Office because so much third-party software integrates with it and not with anything else.

I like OpenOffice pretty well. Used it on my home PC, back when we had a home PC. My daughter would like a netbook for XMas, I'll put OpenOffice on that, or install an older version of Office.

Now, as for the O/S, Vista did not give me (as user) any great positive or negative over XP, and a feature I rely on (Offline Files) worked very poorly in Vista after working great in XP. I have spent 20 hours futzing with it and now it works poorly, which I guess is an improvement over "very poorly". I am sort of looking forward to Win 7, in hopes that they fix this. We won't upgrade to Win 7 at work for a year or more. If Win 7 will run on the kid's netbook, I'll install it - no reason for her to get used to an O/S that is two generations old.