Microsoft Office 2007 is a fabulous piece of software. It is not a minor upgrade, as most previous versions have been. It does everything much better. But, despite the fact that it's now been released for more than a year, hardly anybody is using it.
I deal with many people with whom I have to swap files all the time, and not one of them is using the vastly superior new version. I have to back-save everything I do into the vastly inferior old version.
What a conundrum. The writer of this article answered their own confusion in the second paragraph - why on earth does a piece of software require you to back-save? Versioning should be captured and automatically handled by some forward thinking on the software vendor's behalf!
I'm afraid the underlying inferiority is not older versions of office, but alas, office itself!
