I've not been afflicted with Vista yet, but my wife's been working on a project requiring her to use the newest edition of Office, which also has the Ribbon. The good news is that most of the keyboard commands that worked in Office 2000 still work, so you can -- if you remember the keystroke sequences -- still do most of what you used to do. She's not impressed, either.

Am I missing something: you can't use your computer, with the old software, until you're trained, but you can use someone else's laptop, with newer software, without anyone minding? Is there some logic to this which I've missed?

So glad I don't have to deal with Vista. We (my employer) doesn't support it for any of our machine interface software yet. Which means I still get to play with NT or XP on customer sites *g*

Other than that, I'm so glad the job seems to be going well so far!!