I am not sure how intuitive or usable the old office is, but I have been using one version or another since the late 80s. I am very familiar with it and can access anything relatively quickly with little forethought. My company switched to Office 2007 and I am miserable. I use to know where everything is, but now it takes multiple clicks to get what I want done. Maybe I will get used to, I'll probably have to, but one of the key benefits for me was the model that was used. I knew that in any program I went to, if I wanted to open a document, I should go under File and I would see the open command. Whatever happens, I just hope that all the different vendors stick to a consistent model so that people will still be able to transfer knowledge of how one program works to how another works. Another bad move I thought was the new interface by Adobe, I am not liking the new Elements interface.