I've been using Office 2007 exclusively since Beta 2 was released. Today was the first time I had to use Excel. (I don't use it much.) But holy cow. Making professional looking documents has become easy. I've been working on templates like mad so that when the full version is released I can pass them over to the folks here in the office. After watching videos and reading documentation I assumed it would be harder than it looked to create, but I was wrong. This is easy enough for my mom to use.

RE: Anil thinks Office 2007 is ballsy

Yeah, Anil Dash, you're right. Office 2007 is ballsy. I love using it and feel unproductive when I go back to the old version.

He totally nails why it's so hard to do something really different at a big company. Convincing everyone that you should change something big is a lot harder than it looks. My hat is off to the Office team. Interviewing Julie Larson-Green about Office is still one of my favorite videos.