Nine Year Old Daughter Reviews MS Office ‘07

Posted on March 19, 2007

This weekend I installed my complimentary copy of Microsoft Office 2007 on my desktop at home. As a developer, Microsoft gave me a full version copy at the Vista Launch. I haven’t really spent much time w/ the new app yet, but my daughter has. Tonight when I walked in the door she shouted, "I love Microsoft!" I don’t share quite the same enthusiasm as her, but it’s been fascinating to watch over her shoulder as she dove into Word and is creating documents with very unique formatting. She intuitively learned some of the latest features with zero training from her dad. I just let her go. I imagine that she, unlike many adults, took Word much farther as she’s less inhibited in the learning curve. She certainly does not have the comparison of the way it used to be syndrom that plagues most adults. Sure the new app will require some re-learning, but I think M$ got it right on this one. I wonder how much product testing Microsoft does with nine year-old children. Probably a good idea.

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