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What's the point of revving office

So you people at Microsoft can sell the same software to the same customer multiple times.

And if it takes "innovation", by golly "innovation" will happen - even if it means putting in then taking out that stupid dancing menacing cartoon paperclip.

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Ah clippy, how do we miss thee!

I hardly work in product development but from what I've seen, innovation is very focused and extremely thought out within the company. The "rogue innovator" in it for career points would hardly survive very long.

No, I'm accusing the whole damn company of being the rogue innovator. Personally I find Office impossible because the UI keeps "revving" so I can never find the features I want and which I was using happily 10 years ago.

On another note, I thought you might find this amusing:

http://vigor.sourceforge.net/

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