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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Jules Stoop said 5:38PM on 1-10-2007
Ugly...
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Scott F said 5:44PM on 1-10-2007
>the words "page layout" were used quite often while emphasizing many of Word's new features...
More good news.
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John Russell said 6:29PM on 1-10-2007
Word Art? Give me a break.
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Alex said 7:41PM on 1-10-2007
So now they've made it eyecandy-ish, but confusing as hell? We cannot find a balance, it appears.
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Blufire said 11:49AM on 1-11-2007
Hmm.. the use of latin in the template makes me think "Pages." :\ Did they rip that off of Apple? Did Apple copy that from somewhere else?
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Lokheed said 6:20PM on 1-10-2007
I have always respected the office team over at MS. They do good work. Its not easy to take the diversity and daunting complexity of heavy duty office programs and make them manageable as well as usable.
Aesthetically, they did a great job on the new Office Suite. The ribbon is a step in the right direction. It still needs refinement but it came from MS and that speaks volumes (we all know the slapdash nature MS takes in almost everything they do). The new Office does indeed look refined and doesn't have that "the night before" feel to it that nearly everything they slap their name on does.
Its going to take a lot to win me over from Pages, but I really impressed so far. I hope it only gets better on Mac OS when they port it and that they don't go and ruin it.
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Jules Stoop said 6:32PM on 1-10-2007
Well yes,
I do respect the Mac BU as an important and dedicated developer for the Mac OS and I do actually admire the Office (for Windows) team's effort to unclutter the interface and actually come up with decent interface guidlines for their new Ribbon.
I simply don't like what I see in these screenshots and what I heard about it from people who have actually worked with pre releases of Office: mac 2008
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Luigi said 6:44PM on 1-10-2007
I like it :)
But why were the screenshots in Latin...? :P
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MySchizoBuddy said 6:40PM on 1-10-2007
looks like a different Ribbon UI than the windows one
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Andreas said 7:13PM on 1-10-2007
Lokheed:
"Its going to take a lot to win me over from Pages"
Try typing a 10+ pages document and you will hate Pages for sure.
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djangone said 10:25PM on 1-10-2007
The 1990 version of MSWord gave me everything I needed. Everything since then (other than easier columns) has been a step backward or sideways. I could even get by with the 1987 version. The day they got rid of the right-hand keyboard navigation was a big victory for stupid. It was incredibly rad for the time. You just typed the decimal key, and then the menu number and then the first letter of the command, so that point-five-s brought up 'Section' where you could set columns. After awhile it was faster than lightning, and you never needed the mouse. The 'equals' key was 'find again,' which I don't think works anymore at all on the Mac. Hmm, now I wonder if this functionality is something that still exists but is hidden, because I hardly use Word anymore since my heady days as a writer.
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Geofox said 6:56PM on 1-10-2007
Really ugly...
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Dan Woods said 6:59PM on 1-10-2007
I was actually contemplating getting Office when 2008 was released, but looking at these screenshots, I'm pretty sure that iWork will well and truely suit my needs, even if it doesn't come with a Spreadsheet.
Microsoft Products are Reactive, they've obviously borrowed heavily from Pages here, inhereting it's good aspects, but also its bad aspects.
These screenshots remind me of a dog in a Tennis Ball Factory- It doesn't know which way to run...
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Cory Krug said 9:07AM on 1-11-2007
Looking forward to a universal version of the office apps. I respect Microsoft's innovation but, I'm hoping we will be able to move the "ribbon" toolbar to the side, like it is now, so that it's not wasting so much vertical screen space :-(
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soho said 7:36PM on 1-10-2007
After looking at some screenshots, I have to say that I really like the design approach here. Powerpoint has black transparent Windows like Shiira 2.x Beta or CSSEdit. On the other hand, the tasks/todo list really looks out of place.
Here's the slideshow: http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=&s=25986&a=198271,00.asp
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Patrick said 7:21PM on 1-10-2007
None of this means anything to me unless they improve the performance of Entourage as an Exchange client. They're still not adding MAPI support, which means it'll still be inferior to their Outlook 2001 product from OS9, right?
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Occh said 7:36PM on 1-10-2007
"the impressive new 'Ribbon' UI in Office 2007 for Windows" is not impressive to most current Office users. It looks unfamiliar, and takes up an absolute ton of screen space.
Training for the new version takes time and money. Buying the upgrade costs money.
Tell me again why I shouldn't outfit my office with OpenOffice?
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Steve Lang said 2:23PM on 1-11-2007
I guess that little window on the right is the new 'My Day' app. Looks pretty lickable for a MS app, if nothing else.
I like the ribbon concept in general, and am glad they at least superficially gave it an Aqua look.
The ribbon tabs are different than the standard 'write', 'edit', 'page layout', etc. that I've seen in Win Office screenshots, I wonder why. This Mac screenshot seems to be in some sort of publishing type mode, with the templates and all.
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Illtron said 7:52PM on 1-10-2007
"But why were the screenshots in Latin...?"
Are you serious? Its freakin' filler text.
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Sean Hayford O'Leary said 9:00PM on 1-10-2007
Gosh they just keep on trying their darndest to look Mac-like. A for Effort, no?
I still have high hopes for iWork '07 (actual word processor and ODF support). Whenever it should happen to be released. ;-)
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