I have Office 2008 on my Mac and hate it. I have Office 2003 on my PC at work and LOVE it. I forgot how comfortable I am with 2003.

Yeah cloud computing is all the buzz, but it will be awhile before my industry accepts it as well - maybe if they get to own their own piece of the cloud. Still I guess Microsoft has to respond to Google on this front and have a product ready to compete.

And you want to see a company come to a standstill, put Office in the cloud (even an enterprise intranet one) and then go through one of the one-or-twice-a-year network outages we experience.

It is already 80% crippling to lose email, IM and the intranet even for just a couple hours. Lose access to what we currently keep locally and they might as well just send us home.

I've grown into Office '07.

I really like Office 07. I find the ribbon to be just fine once I learned where everything is. Is it all that much better then 03? Not particularly - but now that I've been using 07 for quite awhile, I wouldn't want to go back.