Finally the Vista is out and the launch by Bill Gates touting it as the next best thing was done while the Microsoft Office 2007 seemed to have got the backseat in the fanfare!

Microsoft’s Bill Gates ushered his company’s new Vista OS and Office 2007 software suite into Europe, near the end of a round-the-world event that brings the software to 70 countries in 19 languages.

Gates was keen to present Vista as a milestone for the company, but also a cornerstone OS for manipulating video and photos, conducting e-commerce transactions, and using Voice over IP functions.

Gates touched on the revamp of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, saying its new interface “only takes a few hours to learn.” While Microsoft has said that Office 2007’s new “ribbon” menu, which replaces the drop-down menus and toolbars, should make it easier to find certain functions, some users have said it is tricky to adapt to.

Source PC World