Actually I looked at Word 2007 again after you mentioned it. It still doesn't mean anything to me AND they are going to put the ribbon on the next version of Word on the Mac. Not that anyone will have asked for it I imagine. Baffling.

I'm sure there are occasions when that multiple editing thing could work. But I can't imagine there are many. And I do feel there are lots of people out there who think Word could be made better for just writing stuff instead.