I'm glad others are having this reaction. To me it felt very much like a radical redesign for the sake of redesign. I haven't used it extensively but I haven't noticed a lot of new functionality. Just a lot of new frustration. Didn't help that I was trying to re-work my resume before sending it out last night. I cannot imagine the horror of trying to teach this travesty. I'm assuming they're trying to make it better match the browser experience (the new "Home" option) but it was completely unnecessary.

I'm beginning to understand why Office Home and Student is so cheap. It isn't because MS is trying a new pricing strategy; it's because otherwise they wouldn't sell it at all.

One of the reasons I am trying to figure out how to make Windows Explorer show me file extension (other than I'm a control freak and I want to know what the hell it is I'm opening) is so that I can verify I haven't saved a file in the *.docx format. I'm all of a sudden a LOT more understanding of my former colleagues in Germany who couldn't manage to send me files in the standard *.doc format.

Thanks. I wanted an iMac. I want to continue moving towards Mac. Alas, this was not the right time.