Office 2010, the next version of Microsoft's successful office programs suite, has been in closed testing for a while now. With a public beta expected later in the year, development is stepping up before the program, previously dubbed Office 14, is finally let out into the wild.Earlier this year we posted some screenshots of alpha builds of Word and Excel, and just over a week ago Zack Whittaker posted some new screenshots on his iGeneration blog.
Here are some images of the new about screen of Office and screenshots of the new version of Outlook, including the ribbon toolbar. Click the images to enlarge where they are scaled down.
Images sources: iGeneration and PressPass
This shows the splash screen of an earlier technical preview version of Word 2010.
Image source: iGeneration
Word processors demand so much power.....
Word processors demand so much power.....
While Word might not need it 64bit should be beneficial to Access and Excel
Access should be going away. If you need that much power behind Excel, it's time for SQL!
I disagree. Excel offers a lot of run-time flexibility, and if much more user friendly than a whole Database application. Relational Databases are not Spreadsheets.
Word processors demand so much power.....
Haha, the way OpenOffice runs like molasses now, you might actually be right about that
Word processors demand so much power.....
While Word might not need it 64bit should be beneficial to Access and Excel
People like barteh think the only program in the Office suite is word
Then only Access and Excel should have 64-bit binaries.
Exactly.. what a waste of resources. Oh wait.. There are none. You're just complaining. I suppose you're upset that they made Notepad and Paint 64 bit as well?
Word processors demand so much power.....
Not everyone's requirements are as rudimentary as yours...
And spreadsheets are not database.
As a programmer the thing i hate the most is when people store data using excel.
Someone who use Access for anything other than personal use should get a clue.
Access is more than a DB back-end (in fact, that hasn't been the primary use for Access since 2000). The primary use for Access is as a database *front-end*, with the back-end being somewhere else. What 64-bit brings to Access front-ends is the ability to create *hyperbases* (databases of databases), which is EXTREMELY useful for datamining.
Word processors demand so much power.....
the issue is that M$ sucks with their memory handling and their 32-bit OS can only utilize so much memory, ie 3GB, even then it's a flag you need to add to the boot line to enable more than the default of 2GB. Yet as office gets more and more bloated, it will require more and more memory, and win32 can't handle it and you need to make the jump to 64bit. Pathetic I know.
I looks like they are doing the same thing to Office that they did to Messenger, bloat the crap out of it
I looks like they are doing the same thing to Office that they did to Messenger, bloat the crap out of it
You wouldn't even have voice mail if you dont have a Digital phone system that integrates into exchange (we have them and they are EXPENSIVE) so voice mail wont be coming to most end users in the terms of the exchange end... so how is it bloat? phone system stuff has been in exchange since 2003
Check the company name: Contoso. It's not real. That's one of MS' many example companies. I'm sure all the info is fake.
you should call him and ask what he does
it would be nice to have the ribbon in all applications... *sigh*
It could be a fake number, name, picture. If it is real, then someone doesn't mind to post actual info on the net. Otherwise it can be a company information.
Jenny?!
you did look at the wiki link right?
No, I don't care about the info in the screenshot... no matter if it's real or not.
I wouldn't bother to try to call that number or look up for further information.
The 425-882-8080 number is the main MS switchboard and the 707-2493 is somebody's desk phone.
and if tis glass please, enough glass. 2007 is fine with the black skin!
And I guess it makes the suite more consistent, but I think using a ribbon in Outlook makes no sense usability wise. It's a totally different app than Word or Excel where the ribbon does make sense.
And I guess it makes the suite more consistent, but I think using a ribbon in Outlook makes no sense usability wise. It's a totally different app than Word or Excel where the ribbon does make sense.
1. Until Office 2007 there was pretty much NO redesigning of the UI. This barely even does that, just spreads it across more products and makes a tweak to the main Office button, keeping it in line with Win7.
2. You haven't even tried it!
I'm confused. How exactly did Office 2007 look more like Vista/Win7 then Office 2010? (Especially as Win7 actually makes use of the new ribbon design)
The app icon has been around for long enough, and has its place in the traditional Windows UI. The app orb fit in better with the radically altered design of the ribbon, taking ideas from the Start Menu and the Apple menu and rolling them up into something that was easily discoverable and made sense as soon as you found it.
This irks me a great deal with Paint and Wordpad in Windows 7. Not because I use those apps extensively, but because so many will be modeled upon them in the future.
I like it.
I beg your pardon? When was this?
I beg your pardon? When was this?
XP, Vista, 7.
I'll probably hide the ribbon in Outlook, pin the new and reply buttons to the Quick Access bar, and have a very nice, clean UI to let me focus on my disgustingly unmaintained inbox.
I beg your pardon? When was this?
XP, Vista, 7.
Nope. Office XP was overtly blue, yes. But Office 2007 had several themes, one of which is blue. Vista and Win7 themselves are hardly "blue".
Darker themes are better on the eyes.
Some of us don't like depressing desktops.
Oh well, as long as they make something decent with Visio and MS Project and as long as they fix all the bugs in Word and Excel (especially Excel), and as long as they optimize those graphical features in all the suite (especially Powerpoint and these graphs in Excel), ... That's ok with me.
Oh and they need to optimize a few things in Access and make things maybe more obvious, but it's not this bad once you get to know it.
Why not listen to users?
Why not .......................................?
( Fill in as you please )
It's really incredibly simple.
Why not realize this is a beta?
Why not think before posting?
Why not......................................?
(you fill in as you please)
On another note - why do we always get more than one screenshot of the splash or about screen? It doesn't really show a lot beside the version number. Which is meaningless now, right?
um get a new OS? because that's the direction all windows apps are going
We are licensed for both. Our users that have to use 2007(Excel2k7 supports more than 64k rows) have all asked what it would take to get back the O2k3 interface. They've been using the ribbon for months and they still dislike it.
Office 'Vista'? You mean Office 2007. And no, it's not a worthwhile endeavour for the developers.
You can, if you must, buy programs to help though.
well if you like then stop complaining and use it. No-one is forcing you to use it.
Surely saying "click on the brightly coloured icon at the top right" is enough. You can even specify the bright orange/blue/etc icon.
Having the toolbar be task-sensitive instead of trying to cram everything in one bar was certainly a change I hated in Office 2007. For all of 20 minutes, that is. After that it grew rather quickly and steadily.
And now we finally get a decent upgrade to my beloved Outlook? BO-FREAKIN'-NUS!
OUTLOOK IS NOT ONLY AN EMAIL CLIENT
It is an client-side application for Microsoft Exchange and all of the communication and collaboration features that go with it. The fact that people use it without exchange for other servers/pop3/imap accounts is a sideline/nice-to-have.
If you want a basic email client go for thunderbird/gmail/eudora/windows live mail etc.
On another note, I also hate the button that has replaced the orb/Office jewel (whatever happened to Magic Corners?) and all that white makes it hard to know what to focus on i.e. the content of the message. Similar designs in Windows Explorer/Paint/Wordpad for Windows 7 are also bad in my opinion.
As much as I am grateful for someone uploading screenshots, wouldn't it be better to of actually had some content in Outlook so we could get a better picture? It doesn't look like they have improved the To Do bar yet (protoype) but hard to tell from the image.
I also prefer the top left orb in 2007 compared to the tab in 2010.
http://blog.arkidect.com/2009/01/office-14...the-ribbon.html
But for those who thinks it's TL;DR or don't want to leave Neowin.net, here are my points:
1. Lack of visual distinctions with the new colors and boxes
2. Incoherent title bar
3. Fitt's Law
@037: I agree with you. The evolved Ribbon looks kinda of sucky right now.
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