Een aantal weken geleden verscheen er een spambericht waarin Microsoft CEO Balllmer in een kwaad daglicht werd gesteld. Wederom is er een spamrun gedaan om Microsoft zwart te maken. Dit keer is Office 12 het doelwit van de e-mail. Volgens het bericht de nieuwe kantoor suite van Microsoft een verspilling van het geld en doet men er verstandig aan om oude versies te blijven gebruiken. Wederom wordt ook weer de quote gebruikt waarin Microsoft zou zeggen zelf de grootste spammer ter wereld te zijn.

Attention Business Owner:

ANALYSTS FIND NEW [ Microsoft Office 12 ] TO BE AN UNNEEDED PURCHASE [ Extremely Complicated ] TO RE-LEARN AND SUGGEST KEEPING OLD VERSION.

September, 20th, 2005 - 4:00AM PDT By Ina Fried / Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Unfortunately, the company was a little too successful at making its innovations unobtrusive. In user testing, Microsoft found that nine out of every 10 features that customers wanted to see added to Office were already in the program. "They simply don't know it's there," Chris Capossela, a Microsoft vice president, told a developer crowd last week. "It's just too hard to find it."

"Some very small percentage of people are going to react overwhelmingly negative," Sinofsky said in an interview. "I'm prepared for that."

But, he warned, Microsoft may still face a tough sell. "Microsoft has to convince (corporate customers) not only that the new version is better, but also that there is not a significant amount of retraining that is going to be required for users."

FULL ARTICLE AT: http://news.com.com/Office+12+makeover+takes+on+feature+creep/2100-1012_3-5873597.html?tag=st.num
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