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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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Since this site seems /.'ed already, here are another ones that have some screenshots too -
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http://www.wininsider.com/news/comments.aspx?mid=
http://users.pandora.be/AMDtje/Office11_2.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol11.htm
Suhit
Other than Outlook, I haven't seen an improvement in Office since Office 97, and even THAT was iffy over Office95...
Word XP can do non-consecutive text selections (you have _no_ idea how nice this is until you have it). 2000 introduced a multiple-item clibboard, and it doubled in size in XP--in addition to an overhaul of the word mail-merge wizard, and numerous other small improvements (like the HTML export being almost standard).
Not sure of these are $100 upgrades, but they ARE improvements.
Especially as Outlook happily opens and runs evil scripts in e-mail messages, even if you just look at the mail in the preview pane. Most of those holes have been patched by now, but I keep seeing new ones in the auto-update logs.
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The replacement for System Policy in Windows 2000 Active Directory implementations. HTH :p
There was virtually no difference between Office and Office 97. The differences between Office 97 and 2000 were mostly visual (and the addition of broken compatibilities). The differences between Windows 98 and Windows ME were just pointless. I still consider Windows XP an expensive, restrictively licensed downgrade to Windows 2000.
In all that, you're right on the money for 98/ME; ME never should have been, and if not for RAMBUS it wouldn't have been. But as for the rest: MS has got lots of small improvements in each iteration of office. Blame planned obsolescence.
* Office 97 was the first package with reasonable HTML built-in. Yes, it's bloated HTML with all of the Office metadata, and yes, they'd have been better if they copied Acrobat's Word-UI. But that's neither here nor there.
* Office 2000 introduced a whole heck of new features--most notably for most of us, those auto-hiding menus, multiple windows in the taskbar, and a built-in clipboard that can hold twelve "cuts."
* Office XP doubled the size of the clipboard, gave word discontinuous selection ability, and introduced that somewhat-useful task pane.
* Windows XP, over 2000, has a major improvement just in explorer.exe. You can customize your start menu to your heart's content, the system tray auto-hide (or mannualy hide) icons, and the gooy GUI is, if nothing else, "new." (And being able to turn off all of the above is rather nice, too.)
Whatever comes with Works is most certainly not Word, and it doesn't talk to the .doc format either.
Sorry to disappoint you but Works does come with Word and Word obviously "talks" to the .doc format. See http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/ for proof.
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Heh, heh...have you asked your friends lately about that? I'm getting this mental image of them saying, "Damn, Tom keeps sending me that 'I Love You' message."
Because opening attachments from friends is JUST as risky as opening ones from strangers. And an email that uses HTML only and opens in a preview pane is at risk of the next Nimba that comes along.
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
Here's all the screenshots I could find, barring reading the article as it's slashdotted. maybe the article's important, maybe not.
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These screenshots aren't in any particular order, and there's a few shots of what appears to be the next version of Visual Studio, although, I could be mistaken.
If you're looking here for something insightful or thought provoking, you're probably looking in the wrong place.
You know you can choose not to install Clippy in the first place? Do a custom installation and deselect office assistant. No patch required.
The owls are not what they seem
That is just bullshit, pure and simple. Outlook Express does that, Outlook does not.
I don't use the new beta but I use Office 2000 and thought I'd respond to a few of these things.
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;)
> Can I turn of HTML mail in Outlook?
Why couldn't you before? I use text email in Outlook just fine. It even highlights URLs for me in text mode which I find nice . Maybe you don't?
> Does fastfind sit in the background and hammer
> my pc from time to time?
If you don't turn it off, yeah probably
> How easy is it to install shit head the paper clip?
Why would you want to install it if you hate it?
> Can I tell Office that I'm english and have A4
> paper, english dictionaries, the correct date
> format, paper size in inches etc..... without
> going through all the dialogues.
In Page Setup, there's an option "From this point forward" that should save your Page setup setting.
When I insert a date, my format choice hangs around for the next go at it. I don't use the keyboard shortcut though maybe the choice sticks around if you go through the menu once then start using the keyboard shortcut.
As for english dictionary, try the Set Language option in Tools???
> What about that horrible auto-crap, is that
> still on by default?
I assume it still is but you can turn off a fair bit of that auto stuff from Tools->Auto Correct
Automatic execution of embedded scripts is also a problem. In some cases, the ability to embed scripts is a problem.
However, ".exe" is a system-wide problem that doesn't go away just because there are or are not scripts embedded in document files.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
For those that still don't know, OpenOffice's native format is XML.
Do you actually read what you link to, or do you just hope it's right and nobody actually goes to take a look.
Microsoft Works Suite comes with Word.
Microsoft Works does not.
And I also know from experience that the Works wordprocessor default format is not readable by Word.
That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3 days to respawn! -NJ CoolBreeze
I've received plenty, the trick is to just not open attachments from people I don't know.
No it's not, outlook used to execute JavaScript when you PREVIEWED documents.
I got my first virus by attempting to delete message that looked like a virus, and when i previewed it, the JavaScript ran the executable. No stupidty on my part, I couldn't stop it. Nor could you have.
You've just been lucky, not clever, that basic advice anyone knows, that's why recent viruses don't give a damn if you bother opening them. Previewing is sufficient.
-- If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment. -- Harry F. Banks
Indeed it does. There was a virus called "HapTime" or something, that infected a lot of machines in a company I work for.
It used simple VBScript, only that it was not an attach as with the "I love you" and all his children, it pasted itself in the content of the messages the person sent (if sent in HTML).
The trick was that the mail was for real, and there was no attach. So, if you wanted to know what the person had to say to you, you would get infected.
I thank God I use Evolution.
Margarita Manterola.
The biggest problem with Outlook (Express) that I have, and that remarkably few people seem to realise is a problem, is that it will automatically load any remote object embedded in an HTML e-mail. Sounds harmless until you realise that *just by previewing an HTML e-mail message*, you are allowing a spammer to know that your e-mail address exists. I'm sure this is happening to me, there is NO option to turn it off (except for the ingenious "go offline every time you read your e-mail" solution given to me by an IRCer), and because of this, I'm going to start using Pegasus Mail instead. They actually have programmers that have a clue.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
The biggest problem with Outlook (Express) that I have, and that remarkably few people seem to realise is a problem, is that it will automatically load any remote object embedded in an HTML e-mail. Sounds harmless until you realise that *just by previewing an HTML e-mail message*, you are allowing a spammer to know that your e-mail address exists. I'm sure this is happening to me, there is NO option to turn it off (except for the ingenious "go offline every time you read your e-mail" solution given to me by an IRCer),
Emphasis mine.
Perhaps you should spend more time learning your tools, before waxing lyrical about problems in them that don't exist.
Tools->Options...->Read->Read All Messages In Plain Text.
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