Instead of trying to implement some fairly critical enhancements on top of the existing design (e.g., blogging capabilities and security features like the Document Inspector), Microsoft opted to incorporate those changes, along with a radically re-architected interface, into a brand new model. Office 2007 represents a clean break in platform design, built from the ground up to shed the superannuated binary file formats and enable a new (forgive me) paradigm for usability. As the bells and whistles piled up, a lot of flaws and problems were worked around, built on top of, and left unfixed. Word 2003 has more than 1,500 commands and 30-plus toolbars. For some perspective, consider that the first version of Word for Windows, released in 1989, had roughly 100 commands and two rudimentary toolbars. The Office platform was built on what are now antiquated technologies-and it has accumulated a lot of gunk over the years.
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