PC World: The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year: #1 Microsoft Office 2007

 

Wow, good recognition for Microsoft Office 2007. It is the #1 pick of PC World as most innovative product of the year …

… Innovation? Microsoft? Yes, we were surprised, too, but the Redmond giant’s latest upgrade of the world’s most popular productivity suite introduces several new features that revolutionize how people work with documents (see our review). The most striking change is a “ribbon” at the top of the interface that replaces the traditional cascading menus and taskbars, and can expose functions you never knew were there. Through the suite’s handy new Live Preview feature, you can see how formatting changes, for example, will affect your document prior to your making them. You get greater XML-format support, too. Prices range from $149 for the Home and Student edition to $679 for the Ultimate edition…

Check out the whole list over on : PCWorld.com

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The T-Mobile Dash (yes my current smartphone) is at #10.

It seems way more innovative than the BlackBerry Pearl (here you go Bill πŸ˜‰ ) which ranks # 17