New Office for Windows

[cahult]

http://pdc.xbetas.com.nyud.net:8090/?page=o12preview1

Somebody at a swedish mac forum said this looks like it was made by people with no taste. I agree. It looks rather messy and as if they were trying to put glamour into the design but instead it looks tacky.

[adiment]

doesn't look bad at all... why "12" though? Also why does it need it's own skin?

[Jack2000]

Ohh god not another one ..........

[WMD]

There's hardly any room for the document itself! :o

[Aloone_Jonez]

I agree and who's going buy this anyway?

In my opinion office software has been over featured for many years, we're still content with MS Office 97 at work so I can't see us upgrading to this shit.

[mobrien_12]

I agree also.  There wasn't much difference between office 97 and 2000, so there was little reason to replace office 97 with 2000.  Office XP was a big step backwards and is frustrating to use.  This looks even worse.

But of course, MS is changing the document format again.

[Orethrius]

It Burrrrnsss!!! Precious, It Burrrrnsssss!!!

[Kintaro]

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[Commander]

worked fine for the rest of us i think.

and as for the software.. i dont know how well it performs as an application, but the interface sucks ass.  i mean who the hell wants half their screen cluttered with buttons and switches?  ok, maybe i'm being a little too exaggerative here, but why the hell is the toolbar(s) so thick??
i wont even bother downloading a demo (if they offer one) for this one.  i'll just stick with wordperfect and abiword.

[Pathos]

You may be able to reduce the menu sizes.

It will be easier than popup menus because those are too fiddly on larger monitors.

I right click anyway.

[Kintaro]

Its working now, seems pretty good to me, maybe I am blind but I think it looks nice.

[Aloone_Jonez]

What resolution were you running?

[mobrien_12]

http://ericburke.com/blog/2005/09/13/38

[Kintaro]

I agree and who's going buy this anyway?

In my opinion office software has been over featured for many years, we're still content with MS Office 97 at work so I can't see us upgrading to this shit.

I would be interested to see how companies react to the new interface, they could start using OpenOffice.

[Pathos]

I agree and who's going buy this anyway?

In my opinion office software has been over featured for many years, we're still content with MS Office 97 at work so I can't see us upgrading to this shit.

I do all my typing in a program not much more complex than notepad.

Then I format/spell check it.

I find this twice as productive, all the fancy buttons and the autoformating is a pain in the ass and if you do it afterwards you'll do it twice as fast because you don't waste as much time mucking around while you're typing it.