subject: Differentiation between Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 [print this page] Microsoft Office is the most widely used desktop software today and changes are required for betterment. Microsoft Office 2007 was released with some radical changes, since life is constantly subjected to change and modification, where gadgets are shrinking and journeys take less time, and things are rapidly moving with technology. We like to think of saving time, money and resources with faster-paced environment and get accustomed to working with technology allowing us to operate round the clock.
Software has to evolve and adapt to meet our demands just like hardware and changes have been made so that we can work faster, more accurately, and we can undertake the most complicated demands easily and in a professional way.
Many people have Microsoft Office 2003 and are interested in migrating or upgrading to latest version, which is Microsoft Office 2007. Although both programs are same with different edition years, but have several differences between them. So the user having Microsoft Office 2003 should go through the points to learn about some of the differences from latest Office version.
The greatest change is the introduction of the Ribbon proving to be the most noticeable new feature, where Ribbon is home to all the commands and options and sits along the head of each document page and has replaced the traditional menus, and commands are now presented in tabs.