The news about the Windows browser ballot screen yesterday wasn’t the only ballot news appearing from Redmond.  Neowin have obtained an image of the forthcoming file-format ballot coming with Office 2010. This screen will pop-up for the new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to give users a choice of whether they want to save files in the Microsoft Open XML format, the new secure format they introduced with Office 2007, and the popular Open Document Format, ODF.  Can you spot what’s missing though? One of the biggest barriers to people upgrading to Office 2007 was the new ribbon.  This was like yeast extract, you either loved it or you hated it.  Either way there was still a learning curve and that was enough to make a great many people say they wanted to stick with their previous version, usually Office 2003

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Office 2010 Ballot screen, can you spot what’s missing?