According to news.com who sourced a Microsoft spokesperson, Microsoft is planning to release an updated beta version of the companies next generation Office suite, Office 2007.
The update will ship to 10,000 beta participants in the private Beta Place testing zone next week. It's expected that the refresh will sport more UI enhancements and much more stability than the previous Beta 1 release last year. Microsoft is expected to release Office 2007 Beta 2 in Spring with a full retail release expected before year end.
Update: Microsoft have updated the Office 2007 site with what looks like new UI screenshots. To be perfectly honest Office 2007 with this new look UI is ugly to say the least. Maybe it will grow on us like Luna did back with Whistler (Windows XP).
Check out the screenshots below
Screenshot: Outlook 2007
Screenshot: Word 2007 | Word Ribbon
Screenshot: Excel 2007 Excel Ribbon
Screenshot: Access 2007
Screenshot: Powerpoint 2007 | Powerpoint Ribbon
Screenshot: Office 2007 in Black
View: Updated UI Overview
Update: Microsoft have updated the Office 2007 site with what looks like new UI screenshots. To be perfectly honest Office 2007 with this new look UI is ugly to say the least. Maybe it will grow on us like Luna did back with Whistler (Windows XP).
Check out the screenshots below
Screenshot: Outlook 2007 Screenshot: Word 2007 | Word Ribbon Screenshot: Excel 2007 Excel Ribbon Screenshot: Access 2007 Screenshot: Powerpoint 2007 | Powerpoint Ribbon Screenshot: Office 2007 in Black View: Updated UI Overview View: Microsoft Office 2007
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Last edited by shockz on 10 Mar 2006 - 06:05
I will watch with interest...
(eg in word...if you arrow left/right...sometimes it jumps to the top or bottom of the page...frickin annoying)
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presski...ce/default.mspx
Went through the whole signup process, hit continue, and then it said it could not continue.
Windows XP skin makes the PC a lot more like a gentle and welcome tool and not a complex nerdish thing.
When I see the blue/green XP I see a stable and friendly GUI.
vista on the other hand is cold(glossy) and dark.
Other then that I'd love to use Linux instead, to hell with Microsoft and their closed standards (DirectX).
Though I consider myself a poweruser and I have the minimal number of bars open so I have pretty much 90% real estate for everything, but should be fun to see where they take this..
Eitherway, still looks good to me :fro:
if they want bling they can buy Bling it On
Only issue I ever have with Office 12 is when I'm in Word and I go into the fonts. It takes about 4 seconds for the list to come up. That's the only issue I've ever had and it's never crashed on me once.
Stupid, Microsoft, stupid. Just don't touch the Mac version of Office 12.
Beacuse it looked like Apples Metal finder windows and iTunes Metallic look?
Since everyone complains about the UI now, how there are more buttons as opposed to menus; did they say they will give you the option to bring back the menus?
Also, I'm sure by "default"; opening up an application like PowerPoint won't have all that stuff in the way...
No.
But it has nowhere near the fucntionality and power of MS office for businesses, heck as a hoe user I wouldn't use OOo unless Iw as forced to even. it's just nothing compared to Office.
In Addition I have bad experiences with their document handling. whenloading document I prefer it loads the whole project report file, not with 50% missing at random places in the document...
I'm sure you'll be able to turn down the toolbar to suit, but there are other issues too - WTF is going on with the top left-hand corner of the window? Yuck!
MSN Messenger hit it.
Now Office has hit the ugly tree too.
The new WLM build looks awful - they moved away from the distinctive orange theme to something so bland it would be hard to make it any less distinctive... I found it a complete disappointment and a backward step from earlier versions (ridiculous, considering I preferred the first build to any other to date).
Actually, the new Office theme isn't that bad after it's had time to settle; the black one is very nice - the only thing I dislike is the curved edge at the top left, though won't that be anti-aliased if you use it with Vista?
Orange was ok if it suited your windows theme. I liked it although it was a bit restrictive colour wise and a waste of space although had they wanted to they could have fixed that.
But yeah, it should be based on the theme so i am not worried about the color, just the design and i so far think it rox!
I can't wait to start downloading it!
*This is my own personal opinion. You don't have to agree.
Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/default.aspx
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http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/jensenh/image...6/original.aspx
The Office Button
The Office Button provides access to all of the document and system-level functionality in the program. This is where you go to start doing things with your document in Office--from simply opening a file to saving as a PDF to starting a workflow or publishing the document on a server. This is where you start a document, and this is where you finish a document.
There's so much more to write about this in the future, but here's the simple screenshot of what you get when you first click the Office Button.
The Office Button
I'm glad to see them get the same UI cross the suite