Oh!, The pain, the pain...

Dr. Smith from the old "Lost in Space" had a tagline "Oh, the pain... The pain!"

The ultimate whiner. But this is what comes to mind when I think of Office 2007 installations. Its enough to consider early retirement! The main thing I _thought_ would be difficult with the new Office was the redesigned user interface. I work on a campus - we have people at all levels of skill. I was worried about training them up - because everyone in the software universe seems to think that training is not an issue. (Everyone I talk to who has Office 2007 says that they don't know where anything is!)

Guess what? The user interface is not a problem. We will get through this. I think. Training is next week...

What concerns me now is deployment. Leaving aside the fact that security concerns have broken any of the built in deployment stuff in Active Directory...

Annoyance #1 Office Professional Plus takes 1/2 hour to install! What a pig! The setup routine claims that it will uninstall previous versions. Not true. It doesn't uninstall Office 97. Ugly mess it makes. Oh well, time to go. Wife over shoulder, New Year's eve. And don't suggest Open Office. Talk about a pig. Almost as bad...