Windows 7 and Office 2010

We upgraded our staff and lab computers to Windows 7 and Office 2010 in December and are now teaching classes on these programs.

It's fun! There are some new features that I really like- the way the Taskbar works now- you see small windows showing all items - documents, emails, etc. you have open in that program- when you slide onto the program icon on the Taskbar- you slide over them to see them bigger and then click on the one you want to switch to it. This is much easier than seeing a list and trying to figure out which is the one you want.

The button to show the desktop (and, in effect, minimize all open windows) is at the very far right on the Taskbar- after the time. You don't even think it's a button unless you put your pointer on it and see the desktop- again- if you click it, you switch to the desktop.

It's interesting that we now have "File" again in the Office programs- this time in the form of a tab- the first tab on the Ribbon. It works a little differently than they old File menu (Office 2003 and previous) or the Office Button (Office 2007), in that when you click it you no longer see your document. You still use it to get to the same choices, New, Open, Save, Save As, Print, etc.. To return to your document you just click a differnt tab.

Have you upgraded? What do you think of Window 7 and Office 2010?