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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 ;)
HERE!
god I'm such a karma whore.'When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.' -HST
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.
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.)
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.
That is just bullshit, pure and simple. Outlook Express does that, Outlook does not.
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
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.
Coming soon - pyrogyra