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Next MS Office carries totally new interface

Next MS Office carries totally new interface

PC Magazine has tested Office 12 Beta 1, and reports about the new, more intuitive, tabbed interface that the software features.

Microsoft says it had four overall goals in developing Office 12: First, create a user interface that’s intuitive for beginners and experts, unlike the often incomprehensible tangle of earlier versions. Second, improve collaboration for workers who need to share their documents with others or follow company-wide guidelines. Third, tighten corporate control, including easily managed review workflows, easier tracking of document content from centralized management software, and more ways of removing embarrassing or confidential information from files before they’re made public. Fourth, offer simpler and more extensive development tools and a more transparent XML document format that gives developers and managers greater control over what goes into their files.

Source: PC Magazine

Comments

  1. Gobbles
    Gobbles pretty snazzy looking. Gonna have to see if I can get it off MSDN.
  2. Park_7677
    Park_7677 It looks like the new tabs take up a lot of work space. I know with high-resolution monitors it won't be a big deal but hopefully they're have a sizing feature for the tabs. I think it looks good :thumbsup:
  3. Thrax
    Thrax Looks nice. Quite like the graphite colour scheme.
  4. Zanthian
    Zanthian I think it will alienate most of my office users and make it hard to justify upgrading.
    Regular non IT people just want their software to be consistent and a major change in the user interface is not a "feature" that I need. I just need a more stable product.
  5. MiracleManS
    MiracleManS To me, it looks much more intuitive for the basic features of the product. I'm not sure how the advanced things may work, but everything you need just seems to be there.
  6. sfleuriet
    sfleuriet woowweee thats a huge change :thumbsup:
  7. Leonardo
    Leonardo
    I'm not sure how the advanced things may work, but everything you need just seems to be there.
    I hope that's right. My Office installation is circa 2000, and it has way more features than I will every use. I don't need more features. It sure would be nice though, to find what I need easily.

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