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Yeah okay the title bar in paint doesn't fade in paint, but it's a much larger step to consistency than anything before.

How did Office 2007 look like anything else in the OS at all? It didn't.

Consumers are more likely to pickup on consistency here from the ribbon and general clean style with title bar buttons than be like "oh hey one of these doesn't fade into the titlebar! it looks 10x different!".

I've already let my parents have a spin of the technical preview and they are much more at home than Office2 2007. In fact both of them refused to use it, sticking to 2003.

OMG!!! I found that the old Outlook Connector is not compatiable with Office 2010..........

Does anyone have the Outlook Connector Beta that works with 2010?

BTW, the new Office looks cool~~

Well technically noone officially has this technical preview (a)

I would guess it would come out when they choose to distribute the preview. Or maybe just before so as to have it there "before" the technical preview comes out.

I love this new suite :) Outlook is much more responsive along with the other applications :D

I hate that Outlook connector isn't compatible and the link to the new version doesn't work :(

Never the less, I'm sticking with this hehe :D

It's somewhat different than the Office 2007 UI and it's certainly better. I think more UI consistency within the OS would be better. It would make it more aesthetically pleasing.

OMG I love this :D YAY!!

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It splits the messages that come from the same address and allows me to hide the messages and just show the most recent one :D I love the new Outlook.

I just hope Office 2010 is consistent between the different applications in the suite seeing as though it is not consistent with Microsoft applications housing the same user interface style.

That was the whole point of my comment above.

Yeah I also have to say that this beta opens up almost instantly after you click it! It's way faster than Office 2007.

That is really good news. I'm very glad they have been working on the performance. If it's as snappy as Chrome or Windows 7 itself, then they definitely have a winner.

I am guessing no current home user would benefit from the x64 version of Office 2010 over the x86 version?

If you run a 64-bit flavor of Windows, I would think you'd benefit. (Example: All those Dell/HP owners that went 64-bit Vista Home Premium and better starting over a year ago.) Of the home-user crowd, the biggest beneficiaries would like be those that use both Word and Outlook (as opposed to those that use just one).

So I would say that quite a few home users (though not the vast majority) would benefit from a 64-bit Office.

who cares ....

so long as it run faster

People who have thousands of emails DO care. I use 2007 and it takes probably 15-30 seconds to completely load my 2GB PST. If you can prove that it is faster with a ton of emails loaded, that's great. Not so much if you just installed it with nothing loaded in it yet... :rolleyes:

I may or may not have installed this on my 3 year old laptop. My laptop has a 1.60 GHz processor (Centrino Duo) and 1 GB of ram so it is by no means a powerhouse, it may have loaded Excel as the first Office 2010 application the first time in 11 seconds, then possibly Access 2010 in 4 seconds, before reopening Excel in 2 seconds. If my computer did that, I'd think Office 2010 was pretty darn fast.

who cares ....

so long as it run faster

Yeah man, who cares how it performs in real world use!

Also, it's so hilarious that just as the ribbon is introduced in Windows, Office goes and changes its UI so that it looks and acts different from Windows. What on earth is with the new full-window menu and the silly ribbon gradient?

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OMG, they have 'Customize Ribbon' section! I'm sold people. Although I'm pretty used to MS Ribbon, apart from Home, where I use pretty much everything, I use one or two commands from other tabs on everyday basis. This will allow to pull all the necessary stuff into one tab. Awesome!

For now the only thing that bugs me is the "Start Menu". Wonder why they decided to make appear instead of the document, not over it as in 2007. This is so far the only annoying thing in Office 2010 for me

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