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[Julius Caro]

TCLN Ryster, on 16 July 2012 - 22:41, said:

If you're document is so small that you have that much "white space" around it, isn't that just a sign that you're either zoomed out too much, or your window size is too large?

That said, when I first opened Outlook, the "flatness" and "whiteness" of it all did take a few minutes of getting used to. But I think I like it now.

some people might want the larger window to see more ribbon options.

[PGHammer]

Javik, on 17 July 2012 - 02:05, said:

The fact that it's a productivity suite doesn't automatically mean it needs to be designed in a boring manner. They don't necessarily *need* bling but there's no need to make them bland for the sake of it, and again Microsoft are taking all the choice away and forcing people to stick with that one colour.

I was merely curious - and I remember the same complaint being made about Visual Studio 2012. Where it concerns *me* is how worrying about aesthetics could cause fewer resources to be devoted to functionality

[Javik]

I'm not part of the Apple crowd, I don't think that aesthetics are more important than functionality, I just don't think it's necessary to go out of your way to make something ugly either.

[Raa]

I was looking for the ISO to download, the whole online installer thing didn't really inspire me with confidence.

[Denis W]

I quite like the look of Office 2013. The whiteness isn't a huge bother, and besides I've always found the dark themes in Office 2007 and 2010 to be ugly from the get-go.

Though one really annoying thing about Word: after turning on Reading Mode for one document, Word insists on opening up every document thereafter in Reading Mode. Really annoying as it's useless on a 4:3 screen.

[Growled]

Larry the Lobster, on 16 July 2012 - 22:42, said:

The more I see of the direction Microsoft is going, the more I dislike the new stuff. I shall not feel the need to rush forward with this.

completely agree. I'm not happy with this at all.

[Dan~]

I think people who don't like all the whiteness are just racist's to be hoenst...

[ChrisJ1968]

rfirth, on 16 July 2012 - 22:52, said:

That's weird. Office 2010 is slower than Office 2013 on my machine. Office 2013 is very fast here.



Explain.



Yep, I looked around for that option too and couldn't find it.

I like Office 2013 a lot, but I do wish there was a little more contrast. That's all I would ask for.

What's really cool, though, is the consistency between Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012. They now look like they were made by the same company. There are small differences, but they are very similar.




I agree. I think I like Office 2013 because I have grown used to the style... it's the same style that Visual Studio 2012 uses.



You might find some conflicts in some circumstances, but it should work. I have Office 2010 working just fine alongside Office 2013.

It conflicts terribly with office 2007. I thought i could just use 2007 and test out Office15 but, outlook 2007 wouldn't work until I uninstalled Office 15. probably some files. I saw a service(process) in task manager that I could stop for Office 15.

[ChrisJ1968]

Raa, on 17 July 2012 - 02:18, said:

I was looking for the ISO to download, the whole online installer thing didn't really inspire me with confidence.

on a positive note: it did install quite fast. and no errors

[Travis959]

Found out that Outlook 2013 doesn't support Exchange 2003 SP2 which means I guess I won't be able to upgrade because of work.

[PGHammer]

rfirth, on 16 July 2012 - 23:31, said:

Yes, I like this feature. It's nice. It makes Office 2010 and before feel clunky in comparison.




I'm pretty certain I'm using the ClickToRun version... the file I downloaded was only 480kb. It takes about 1 second to open Word, on 2008 laptop hardware.

I'm really not certain what the deal it. I'll try the standalone version now, though.

My first experience with C2R is with that hyper-puny installer and Office 2010 Consumer Preview - the installer is so little that it could do laps in a 2GB thumb drive, and could fit on a floppy disk (if they hadn't been rendered obsolete) - a double-density (720K) floppy disk. I called it an amazing piece of software *then*.

Next came C2R 1.5 - this time with Windows 8's Developer Preview Actually a bit faster, and harder to differentiate from a standard install.

Now, it's C2R 1.7, and Office365 (I chose the ProPlus version - the likely choice of cloud-based SMBs) and - once the install is finished - it makes Office 2010 look slow.

I've uninstalled O365 (C2R) and Office 2010 and will next reboot so I can install the full Office 2013.

[HawkMan]

Does anyone of the people complaining about the white have their monitors set to anything else than 100% whiteness(and probably 100 contrast and overdrive as well). Set yoru monitor to a properly semi calibrated state and not the supr bright so I can see everyoen hiding in the darkest shadows on Doom3, and you'll see that the white is not only nice, but comfortable.

[mikeleo]

A few things that urk me

1) Too bland
2) Too bright
3) What is the internet is down?
4) What if the Cloud is down?

[dr_crabman]

mikeleo, on 17 July 2012 - 13:11, said:

3) What is the internet is down?
4) What if the Cloud is down?

Then you can use it as usual but can't sync stuff with Skydrive. Do you think O13 needs the internet to function?

[Relativity_17]

mikeleo, on 17 July 2012 - 13:11, said:

3) What is the internet is down?
4) What if the Cloud is down?

The Skydrive app pulls down and stores local copies of everything in your synced storage pool. These don't magically get deleted when you lose your connection.