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We too are moving from Office 2003 to Office 2007 and I can't wait. (I'm running Office 2010, but the rest of the company is stuck with 2003). First of all, 2007 is not much bigger than 2003 in terms of resource requirements. The new file formats, especially in Excel, are a godsend. Limiting worksheets to only 65k rows was killing us for some of our data analysis. In addition, the new file formats create files 10% the size of the old ones, so less strain on the e-mail servers.
In addition the Ribbon UI actually makes Office useful (2010 makes it even better).
And your comment about the registry growing 30MB. So what, the average hard drive is 500GB. Only a very small portion of the registry is ever loaded into memory, the rest is simply a database of settings for programs.
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