Retired in 2007

Software companies are reluctant to remove features from programs for fear of disrupting the workflow of customers who are using older versions of the programs. The most visible (and vocal) customers are large corporations with countless desktops. Nonetheless, sometimes companies have to make the hard choices if features are not used often, if they cause more problems than they are worth, or if their functionality has been assimilated into a new and better feature. Here are a few things that were retired (or assimilated) in the 2007 release of Excel, so if you skipped that release, this is for you, too.

  • The Office Assistant The animated Help characters were, shall we say, not as popular as was hoped. Alas, poor Clippit, we hardly ...

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