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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First Look!

[Anonymous Coward]

at Open Office 2013!

Clone wars!

[Hepkat]

The clone wars have begun!

Re:Clone wars!

[Jugalator]

English: The Clone Wars have begun.
Yodish: Begun, the Clone Wars have.
Soviet Russia: In Soviet Russia, Clone Wars begin you!
Yodish Soviet Russia: You, in Soviet Russia the Clone Wars begin... Umm, no wait... Arrgh!

Re:Clone wars!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's try to work this out.

English usally has a sentence structure in the form SVO, or Subject Verb Object. In this sentence, "The Clone Wars" is the subject, "have" is the verb, and "begun" is the object. Notice that the verb cluster "to begin" has been seperated into verb and object, in the passive voice sentence.

Now, Yodish uses the OSV (Object Subject Verb) construction. So the literal translation from English to Yodish would be "Begun" "The Clone Wars" "Have". This parses nicely into "Begun, the Clone Wars have." quite nicely, as the parent has done.

Soviet Russian uses the OVS (Object Verb Subject) construction. So the transliteration would be "Begun" "Have" "The Clone Wars". Now we take into account some of the unique features of Soviet Russian. First, the definite article "the" is dropped, yielding "Begun have Clone Wars". Also, Soviet Russian only has one tense, the present, giving us "Begin have Clone Wars". Now is the confusing part. Soviet Russian treats the phrase "begin have" as just the verb, dropping the object, yielding "___ begin Clone Wars". However, an implied object is forbidden. When an implied object is present, the subject becomes the object, and the implied subject "you" is added. So we get "Clone Wars begin ___", which leads to "Clone Wars begin you", as shown in the parent.

Now onward to Yodish Soviet Russian. As English becomes Soviet Russian by reversing the sentence order, SVO to OVS, then likewise, Yodish becomes Yodish Soviet Russian by reversing the OSV construction to VSO. So we get a transliteration to "have the Clone Wars begun". We drop the definite article and switch tense to get "have Clone Wars begin". We make the object "begin" into the verb, with the result "begin Clone Wars ___". We then make the subject into the object and add the implied subject "you", getting "Begin you Clone Wars". Now it's just a minor clean-up, with the final result:

In Yodish Soviet Russia, begin YOU, the clone wars do!

reply

[Anonymous Coward]

"Also - Outlook's three-vertical-pane interface is now the default."

Well that is all good and swell but am I still going to get a virus everytime I use it?

Re:reply

[AppyPappy]

Well that is all good and swell but am I still going to get a virus everytime I use it?

Would you rather have ANARCHY? Bodies in the streets? Blood coursing through the gutters? Children wailing for the dead mothers Huh? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? ANSWER ME!! WELL THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL GET IF YOU SPREAD YOUR LEGS FOR OPENOFFICE AND THE OTHER WHORES OF BABYLON!!!! COMPLETE AND UTTER CHAOS!!!!!!!!!

A little bitty virus isn't too much to ask to save the WHOLE FUCKING WORLD. Think about someone else for a change.

You know it's a reputable site...

[Jonboy X]

...when it starts popping up online casino ads at you.

Luxury

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't even hit the site to get the popups!

Young spoiled kids today. *Grumble grumble*

Re: but

[Black Parrot]

> It's just a shame that they're remooving support for the legacy operating systems. ...it seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot by removing older O/Ss from the requirements

I'm sure they'll be happy to make you a deal on a new operating system.

Re:cloning

[Space Coyote]

on a more serious note is cloning the way to win? doubtful - how about innovating making it better rather than just cloning

The cloning thing worked for MS...

Re:Sad

[FooBarWidget]

Because, in contrary to popular belief, Slashdot is actually a pro-Windows site. A poll from a while ago proved that the majority of the Slashdotters are using Windows, *not* Linux/Unix/Mac. More and more moderators are modding critism against Linux up and anti-MS posts down. Slashdotters are slowly converting to pro-Windows; in fact, 65% has already been converted.

Re:The difference?

[yatest5]

Could anyone tell me the difference what Office look like? Ofcourse it's nice if the interface is good etc, but I can do everything I need with my Office 2000. I could even managage with Office 95 for sure. I see no reason why to buy a new Office. What we really need is stability

No, what you need is a grammar checker.

27 posts

[twinstead]

And already slashdotted. Guess they don't have enough bandwidth for the popups...

Re:cloning

[govtcheez]

The cloning thing worked for MS...

No, remember, this is Slashdot. If Linux does it it's "cloning"; if MS does it it's "stealing".

Re:Another upgrade

[richie2000]

I wouldn't call Outbreak an improvement unless you're a virus writer. First thing I do when forced to install it for a client is to remove the Vicious Basic support, #2 is to install a virus scanner.

Wow...

[Jon Abbott]

So you're saying that Microsoft has reduced all of their Office apps to just show the words "500 - Server too busy"? :^)

Re:Sad

[CleverNickedName]

So is it "\." now, not "/."?

Re:screenshots HERE!

[richie2000]

Nah, it's not cool to whine about bugs.

Re:Another upgrade

[Xpilot]

OpenOffice? Bah! Back in the day when I used to walk uphill to school in snowstorms, we used LaTeX and were happy about it!

Nothing to mod

[kahei]

Well, I've been wandering around with a handful of mod points looking for some posts about the actual new Office UI/features to mod up, but there aren't any because everyone was trolled by the cloning bit in the original item!

Ah well, it wouldn't be slashdot otherwise :)

Virtual Desktops

[ShaggyZet]

Virtual desktops go back a really long time, at least until 1992 with vtwm and olvwm

Ah, the good old days when everyone used there own window manager, everybody's unix desktop looked totally different and you actually had to know something to have a desktop that was cool.

Re:but

[Ed Avis]

Perhaps this will be the first really good reason to port Wine to Windows.

And here's a shot of Office 12

[shadwwulf]

Here is a shot straight for the UI testing lab for Office 12

Or at least it could be considering how pre-schoolish UI's are getting these days.

Holy crap!

[M.C. Hampster]

I didn't know Word XP can do non-consecutive text selections. I have been wanting that for years. Now I have a reason to upgrade...

Slashdot made me cynical...

[Graspee_Leemoor]

It's very sad, but now whenever I see a post that's quite long, on-topic, raising valid questions or points etc. I automatically think "Karma whore!".

Sad, isn't it?

graspee

Re:/.'ed

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

Windows suX0rZ!! Yeah!!

It was a joke, Watson.

Re:Saw this at the Tablet PC Expo/Unified Interfac

[Sunnan]

Emacs?

Re:Sad

[johnkoer]

Statistics are meaningless.... 78% of all people know that.

Did they decide on the new logo yet?

[symbolic]

I'm thinking about a picture of Joe Average Computer User in shackles and menacles, with the caption, "Palladium Inside".

ha ha, you seek an empty set.

[twitter]

Well, I've been wandering around with a handful of mod points looking for some posts about the actual new Office UI/features to mod up, but there aren't any because everyone was trolled by the cloning bit in the original item!

What, you can't find another fanboy crowing about how wonderful the new features are? Where are the IE trolls when you need them? I wonder why you are having such a hard time.

Wait a minute, those idiots never did mention anything specific now did they? They always say silly general things about "lots of features" "great user interface" and what not that means nothing.

Perhaps you can do something useful and NAME A USEFUL FEATURE anyone might find on M$. In two years of slaving as an engineer in a M$ "partner" I never saw anything impressive. Most of the newer features, such as autolist and auto spell change were anoyances. The older features, like drawing tools were inferior to those available in free or no cost drawing packages such as the GIMP or Paint Shop Pro. Synching my visor to Outlook was nice, but Outlook was vastly inferior to the applications that came with the Visor itself. Outlook lacked the ability to tack notes into appointments and the notes it did have did not fit enough information to be useful. So, tell me a nice story of innovation instead of bitching about your fellow troll and fanboy posts not meeting your expectations.

Re:but

[poot_rootbeer]

Mmmmm... port wine...

Re:Another upgrade

[rowanxmas]

Wow! Imagine having multiple cuts/copies stored, as many as 12!! That sure beats my emacs buffer of several 100...oh wait.

Re:Another upgrade

[nahdude812]

yeah, I doubt that they're worth $100. Frankly, they're the sort of thing one might expect to be released in a service pack.

And I friggin hate that multiple clipboard thing. No matter how many times I've tried to get used to it, I'm always less efficient with it getting in my way.

I'd *love* to be able to turn it off. But each time I copy something, realize I didn't get the period in the selection, grab the period, and copy again, it pops up. The stupid paperclip I repeatedly ask to go away then comes up and says "Would you like me to turn this feature off?" To which, of course, I reply, "yes," which he pretends to do until the next time I miss a period. Then I right click on him and hide him. He asks if I'd like to disable him. I say, "yes," and he goes away until the next time he thinks I might actually want him back again.

A feature in Office that I'd pay for is the ability to disable new features, for good and truly, to never be bothered by them again unless I completed some mystic Zennish quest to reenable the feature, wherein I need to become one with my software, and utter the mantra, "clippy, clippy, clippy."