Topic: F**k Microsoft

[Mooning Freddy]

I know I'm not the first one to say that, I know I won't be the last.
Fuck Microsoft. I'm sick of their shit. I know the company provided me with most of the software I'm using, and I'm thankful for that. But you know what pisses me off? Their tenancy to "update", "renew", and "improve" everything, in the process changing the interface I've known and used for years. 
I don't need any of your "super-trendy-space interface". Just give me the programs I know and like, without messing them up by "updating" them.

I've recently bought a laptop. It came with a windows 7 installed on it, which has an interface I find annoying, but I'd ignore that. What's worse is that it has the newest version of MS Office installed.
The new Office also has a new interface which takes time to get used to (Why not leave the regular toolbar? dammit!). Personally I don't need much of the office tools. I mainly use MS Word for writing stories and documents. So here I was, typing a story, and once I got back to my PC, I copied the document from the laptop and tried to view it--- but HEY WHAT'S THAT .DOCX? WTF is docx?
Thank you Microsoft you screwed me over! You changed the format and now I can't use the document with older version of Office! I need a fu**king "converter"? What for?!! It's just  fu**king words, binary information, you don't NEED any converter to read this shit!!

Oh, God. All of this is bullshit.   

[uzo]

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3

Yes, you do need a converter because they changed to a different XML based format. Which is better for everyone in the long run. Files aren't "just  fu**king words" as you so gracefully put it. The order and length of each piece of data is strictly important for the old file types. The XML format not quite as much though, which is one of the reasons for the change.

As for the program changes; deal with it. It only use to work for you because you are use to it. Fact is the new format is much more intuitive to people who haven't used Word before, because it follows a general process line of writing an actual physical paper. This is basically what they should have done from the very beginning.

[Gecko]

Yeah, I actually agree with uzo.

At first I didn't like it much, but I got used to the operating system's interface pretty quickly. So much in fact, that it surprised me. I never learned to use Excel before the new Office, so I took a class that taught it at my university. It turns out that the new Word's setup is pretty much the same as Excel's, though only including things relevant to Word rather than graphing and such in Excel. So by learning Excel, I learned Word, and now I find it really easy to write papers and such for classes(my primary reason for owning a computer, along with internet access). Now I'm so used to it, I tried to use an old version of Word, and I had some trouble finding things. I like the new ribbon system.

[Gunlord]

Yeah my brother, I felt the same way the first time I was dealing with the change from .doc to .docx. Like uzo-sama said, though, you just gotta get used to it. It'll grow on you eventually.

[Aridale]

or ya know... just use google docs and do it all from your fav browser and be able to access it any where...

[KaZudra]

....just get the latest office with a Activation loop, all the latest MS stuff has Activation Loops.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Although I agree with Uzo and Gecko, I stopped using Microsoft Office when they switched to that weird blue bubbly-style interface.  Whether that includes any changes, I just didn't like the look.  Because of this, I switched to OpenOffice.  Also, I don't need to pirate OpenOffice since, y'know, it's free and all.