>> Oh, they're all still there. They're just in different locations.
>> Because, let's face it, MS has been selling essentially the same office
>> suite for 20 years now. They have to do *something* to make it appear
>> that the expensive new version is actually different to the previous
>> ones...
>
> So cynical for one so young. :-P

Young? :-P

Seriously. Name /one thing/ that Word 2010 has that Word 2 for 
Workgroups didn't have. Sometime around Word 97 or so that added 
antialiased text. Word has had styles for ages, but in Word 2007 and 
later they're /most obvious/ in the GUI, and you can change the styling 
of the whole document at the flick of a button. (And there are default 
styles supplied.) That's about all I can think of. With 20 years of 
development, that's a pretty unimpressive list.

How about Excel 2010? Well, Excel 2 had charts. They looked horrid, but 
they were there. Each new release of Excel adds a few more chart types. 
In Excel 2007, they changed charts to look nice. (They have antialias at 
last! And decent colour schemes. And so forth.) If that's all they've 
managed to do in 20 years of development, again that's pretty thin.

I don't even use Access or PowerPoint heavily enough to comment 
meaningfully. PowerPoint seems to get a few new slide transition effects 
and slide templates with each release, but that's about it. Access 
doesn't appear to have changed /in any way/ since V2.

And then there's Outlook. (Not Outlook Express, because that's an 
unrelated product.) The oldest version I've seen is Outlook 2000. The 
only difference I'm aware of with Outlook 2010 is that they /finally/ 
made it so it automatically knows where the email server is, without me 
having to manually configure that for every user on every PC on the 
entire network one at a time. Thanks for that.

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