Office 2003 vs 2007

Howdy,

maybe someone knows about this stuff. My employers would like to see a comparison between Office 2003 and office 2007 (beyond office 2007 is shinier)... does anyone know of any website which does a side-by-side comparison of the two, features, enchancements, whatnot? I don't want the official MS one, as it's all MS hype

 

I am well aware that Office 2k7 is still in beta, so comparisons wouldn't be fair. However, the office is still stuck on Office 2000, and it's time for upgrading it - we can take two routes:
1) Go to Office 2k3
2) Wait and go for 2k7 when it's finally released

My feelings, however, are mixed. Office 2k3 is more proven, has had a lot of the bugs patched. 2k7 is unproven, we don't know how stable it will be, or how buggy, however, the new user interface appaers to be more intuitive. And is there any point in upgrading to a version that will be last generation in a few months?
The problem is, with time, as more and more companies pick up 2k7, and if we go to 2k3, we may have problems opening the new file format (unless they save backward compatible version, which won't be the default). This could be avoided should MS release a converter for 2k3...

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Personally I won't be even thinking of depl0ying vista or office 2007 at work until it hits SP1 at least.

 

Funny, with Vista, I have no doubts that it'll be 2008 before I start deployment. By that time (if it actually gets delivered in 2007... who knows) hopefully SP1 will have been released. Although, having beta tested Vista... i am not that impressed.

But with office, i am somehow less worried about waiting for an SP pack. Can't explain why though.

 

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Am downloading beta now. Had beta 1 before, but that was for personal fun, whereas this time, it's for my employers...

Having said that, MS have hit the nail on the head - charge people for downloading and testing beta software. 1.20 isn't much, but i wonder how many people bought it... I wonder if i can get that 1.20 back later as a discount on the final release...