Test drive Office 2010

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited July 2009 in Science & Tech
Test drive Office 2010

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  • jgardner04jgardner04 Houston, TX
    edited May 2009
    Thanks for the update. I just signed up for the wait list. Is there a way for MS partners to get an early look before this?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2009
    Not that I am aware of, though MSDN/Technet subscribers may get a crack at Office '10 around the same time (speculation).
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited May 2009
    The UI looks like the biggest goddamn clusterfuck ever dreamed up by Microsoft, and that's saying something.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited May 2009
    Lincoln wrote:
    The UI looks like the biggest goddamn clusterfuck ever dreamed up by Microsoft, and that's saying something.
    That's impressive, Office 2007 set the bar for "Worst UI in a professional application ever" for me. Can Office 2010 top it?

    I've switched to OpenOffice on all my machines now, except for one that also has Office 2003 with the 2007 compatibility patch.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited May 2009
    drasnor wrote:
    Can Office 2010 top it?
    http://lifehacker.com/5231478/office-2010-screenshots-preview-whats-to-come
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited May 2009
    Baaawwwwww, it doesn't have 2003's menu system!!!!!
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited May 2009
    I just love how Microsoft Office handles fonts. One huge menu I can't scroll through is just... So convenient! And at work, I just love fielding phone calls about the difference between .doc and .docx nearly two years later!
  • Insight-DriverInsight-Driver California
    edited May 2009
    When it gets down to it, at this point, what can a new version possibly have that would improve the suite? I mean, I type, so Word is the application. For that matter, my typing dose not change when I use notepad. I type using Outlook when writing or replying to an email. My typing dose change there, either. When it gets down to it, there is no added functionality to the applications that would improve my typing. So what is the point of the update? Before MS buried the leading word processor years ago, I preferred it over the early version of MS word.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2009
    Yeah. Office 2003 does everything I need, so I've never had a need to switch. It types, it formats documents. The end.
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited May 2009
    And it doesn't have that new UI mirite?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2009
    Not really. There are several plugins for Office 2007 that revert the UI, so it's a non-issue (even though I think it's really ridiculous).
  • ButtersButters CA Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    I got my Office 2010 Technical Preview invitation email. Who else got theres? I'm not sure if it was the result of this link or since I'm already a Microsoft Connect subscriber, but I now have access.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    I was "fortunate" enough to get the technical preview invite. I downloaded but did not yet install. I am going to install a virtual XP box and test drive it.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    Switched to Open Office a couple years back, and now I've stopped even installing that. Google Docs, the end.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    I'm with you there Linc. I don't have any need for the advanced features offered by OOo or MS Office. Google Docs has everything I need for the limited word processing and spreadsheet type things that I do. That coupled with the fact that my documents are available anywhere I can get online makes the traditional office suites obsolete IMO.
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