I normally stay away from betas of major software (such as Vista, Visual Studio, etc.) and after reading Scott Hanselman’s recent experience with Vista, I’m feeling good about my decision yesterday to NOT install it.

Instead I installed Office 2007 Beta 2.    All I can say is “Wow!”  The Office devs did a kick-ass job (see bottom of post for a list of Office 2007 blogs).  The setup was smooth and the new UI is amazing.  It’s very intuitive; much better than previous versions.

All of the apps are very responsive (ummm…I’m running it on this, so YMMV) and a pleasure to work with.

Great stuff coming out of Redmond, but I think I’ll still hold off on installing Vista.

—– Office 2007 Blogs —–
Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog
Brian Jones: Open XML Formats
Dave Gainer: Microsoft Excel 12
Will Kennedy: Outlook 2007
Michael Affronti:  Microsoft Outlook Program Manager
Chris Pratley: OneNote
Owen Braun: OneNote
Erik Rucker: Access 2007
Jeff Bell: Publisher and More
Rob Mauceri: FrontPage
Joe Friend: Word
Mark Jaremnko: PowerPoint and Office Art
Melissa MacBeth: Outlook