Microsoft: Office 2007 training fears are overblown

Analysis
Feb 5, 20071 min

Many IT managers have voiced concerns that the dramatically different user interface in Microsoft’s Office 2007 software will force them to plan migrations more carefully than they have had to in the past, with increased end-user training. But during an interview with Computerworld at last month’s Windows Vista and Office 2007 launch event, Chris Capossela, corporate vice president of the product management group in Microsoft’s business division, insisted that companies won’t have to devise “some big, sophisticated training plan” to roll out the new Office applications.

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