Hello everybody,

 

I noticed Khadooy�s comment on the forum in which he suggested that we should be using Microsoft Office 2007 on this site.  As an IT teacher who has worked with various versions of Office in the course of my work, I have to say that I disagree.  It must be remembered that the majority of contributors probably still have older versions of Office on their computers and are more familiar with the older versions.  Furthermore, newer is not always better; in this specific instance, newer is definitely not better!! In the newest version of Office, there are plenty of changes in the sense that the interface has been tarted up a bit and most features have been moved about [If I were really critical, I could say that the Microsoft people have simply �hidden� most features!!  ], but there are few, if any, substantial improvements.

In the computer centres where I work, some of the organisers were keen to install Office 2007 as soon as it was released onto the market.  They quickly came to realise though that change for the sake of change isn�t always a good thing.  Students were confused, there were problems with compatibility and most course participants were trying to practice on a different version of Office at home. All of the aforementioned centres have now reverted back to using the older version of Office. If I were Victor, I would be in no hurry to change to Office 2007.   

I�m sorry if I have veered off the subject of ESL, but I do think that this issue is also of importance to this site and its contributors.