The irony is that in the latest Office upgrades, the actual work space is reduced by all the fancy tabs and stupid icons... and who in the world came up with the idea of the windows icon instead of "File save" or "file print?" It has become the battle of bloatware.
I notice on my work PC (which IT insists must be win 7 and the latest Office products) that the space to preview emails on Outlook is so small that it is impractical to use on a laptop... and I have a 17 inch display.