Early feedback on Excel 2010

Those who signed up to take a look at Microsoft’s Technical Preview of Office 2010 have started to feedback their thoughts not just to the developer, but to the wider user community via blogs and news reports. John Stokdyk collects together some initial impressions.

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"a tedious chore"
"Migrating between old and new versions has always been a tedious chore, solved in the 2003/2007 episode by Microsoft’s free conversion tool"
Please explain what you mean by "solved in the 2003/2007 episode". The required solution would have been to give the user (=paying customer) a choice about whether to stay with the familiar interface or to switch to the counter-intuitive, inefficient, confused and un-productive new ribbon interface (yes, I know its all been said before but it doesn't make it any less true). I would be delighted if there had been a solution, but, as far as I am aware, the only solution has been to stay with Excel 2003.
I will be interested to see what the ribbon customisation options are, but I am not optimistic.
For now I will be sticking with Excel 2003 and (increasingly) Open Office and maybe Google Apps as Microsoft sails off into the sunset oblivious of the needs of its customers.


What about MS Query?
So far, just looks like tweaks - nothing to really justify an upgrade. Do you know if MS are doing anything about MS Query, which is appears unchanged from pre-2003?