Office 2003 Beta 2 Screen Shots

frooyo writes "ActiveWin is displaying screenshots of Office 2003 Beta 2 including pictures of Outlook, Excel, Word etc. As seen by the screenshot - the task based interface is much more prominent. Also - Outlook's three-vertical-pane interface is now the default." Nice to get a head start on what we'll be cloning next year ;)

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Hypocritical?

[TrollBridge]

"Nice to get a head start on what we'll be cloning next year ;)" ...yet everything I read here suggests that

nothing Microsoft does should be emulated.

Check out this Statistic

[ksplatter]

that I just made up.

Every 1 line of code Micro$oft adds to a product to fix a bug causes 3 other lines of code to break!

I promise that the fact is 100% made up!

Re:Summary for those who didn't see

[The Bungi]

If you are an owner of a Mac you fold your hands together, thankful for OS X, and its great design. If you are Linux or BSD user, you are likewise happy that you have a beautiful design. If you are a Windows user, you are most likely reading this from your corporate headquarters, feeling constrained by the tie around your neck, and uncomfortable dress shoes. However, you are refreshed knowing that through your extreme conformity, and love of mediocrity, you will make much more than your neighbor yearly, and are anxiously awaiting to moment you can upgrade all of your machines to this marvelous new piece of Microsoft engineering -- but you still don't know why. Now if only you could find time for sexual relations within your 9 AM to 10 PM daily work schedule

Your post is a piece of unbridled invective and unabashed FUD the likes of which I seldom see here in WinBash country, and that's saying a lot. In fact, it's so "out there", it's even slightly funny, especially if we turn it around and apply it to you.

No wonder you got modded up - even for Slashdot this is quite a piece of work.

Still, every time I see some retard zealot like yourself posting at least I can find solace in the fact that, as you so put it so succintly, you are the minority. And of course, if you continue to "think" this way, you'll continue to be the minority for a long time. Rest assured, your place in the food chain is secured, and it's exactly where it should be.

Re:Another upgrade

[jilles]

Actually the pathetic attempts of the linux community at trying to come up with a good alternative for outlook are the living proof of how much better outlook was all along. Versions of outlook before the 2000 version and outlook express had severe security issues that could be addressed easily by installing virusscanners (irresponsible not to do on a windows PC), using the patches (also irresponsible not to do) and configuring the software properly.

I've never been affected by an email virus. I know several people who were affected by a virus. One of them was a computer scientist who actually believed that the sender of a particular email was in love with him, had no virus scanner and double clicked the exe file. If my sister does that, I understand because she is clueless about computers. I would however silenty swear at the incompetence of her sysadmin (not me). If a computer scientist does that I silently think "you stupid idiot, didn't your mummy tell you not to accept candy from stangers?".

Re:Summary for those who didn't see

[The Bungi]

Apparently obvious satire

Oh, that was satire? My god, in that case, you are soooo funny!

Perhaps I only proved my point about your flock's inherent dullness

Hahaha! HAHAHAHA!!! Stop it please, you're killing me!! HAHAHA!!