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Why Microsoft keeps making Office worse and worse...

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Does anyone agree with me, that Microsoft keeps taking things that work and breaking them, changing them from the format you have already learned, and overall just keep screwing up Office? I'm sick and tired of them not coming up with a SOLID product that we can depend on, rather than just trying to make a new product with all these fancy new bells and whistles that don't actually work the way they are supposed to. On top of that, wouldn't it be an amazing idea for them to actually make their own product compatible with other products that they have created (i.e. Windows 7)? Microsoft, if you ever happen to read this, get your head out of the clouds and actually come out with a decent product, seeing as the last GOOD product you put out was Windows 95. I'm sick and tired of expensive programs with a cheap result. In this day and age, we have gotten to the point where we don't fix old issues, we ignore them and come out with something 'new and improved'. Which part is the improvement? The fact that you have a new button layout? The fact that you have a different paperclip that annoys the crap out of you as you're working on something? The fact that you have a new colored wavy line that tells you when you've misspelled something? Congratulations software companies, you have become a monopoly that we have no other option but to buy.

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Microsoft freely admits to building software that is incompatible with previous versions of the same product, though this is typically spun as being a trivial, harmless issue. However, in an incredibly rare display of honesty, Microsoft has published on its very own website an article which calls the backward incompatibility in certain versions of Internet Explorer as being a "horrible drain" on companies.