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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 ;)
Is the current speed of Activewin a good indication of what we can expect from Office 2003?
Another shot of it can be found here
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I thought all Microsoft products were beta versions!
I don't think my windows box would crash 3 times a day if I was running a final release version of 98.
Nice to get a head start on what we'll be cloning next year ;)
Yeah, right. Next year. Heh.
Find me an open source project that has the functionality of MS Office from 4 years ago. Or 5. Or 6.
"Nice to get a head start on what we'll be cloning next year ;)"
No wonder why you're always one step behind MS...
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Your company was stupid to upgrade the software but not the hardware. They're not completely independent, you know.
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Personally I could giva a FUCK about the NEW M$ office screenshots. I mean WooHoo!! a word processor!! Never seen one of those gadgets!!!
Gads this is one of the DUMBEST TOPICS EVER!!
BUt to debate why people like Office over KOffice
and OpenOffice ( and all others ) is not!!
The biggest advantage that MS Office has over
Koffice and Open Office that I can see ( that is
for the casual user ) is wizards and templates. Office has a ton and ours do not. At least I think they do not. If KOffice and OpenOffice had wizards and more templates, people would love them.
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I knew MS software is bad, but this bad??
Exactly!
... the thing is "perfect" software from 5 years ago has no clue on how to deal with modern security problems. That is assuming it WAS perfect even 5 years ago... which, folks, that's not true (no matter what software it is... if it hasn't been bug-fixed since then it has been abandoned, not glorified as perfect).
Not to mention, those very same people that are using Win98 (ok, let's say most of them) are probably running it on their Pentium II boxen that are just fine and spiffy for Office 97... they probably can't even run office XP if they tried on that old hardware.
I think software should expire after a certain amount of time (software euthanasia?)
It's extremely sad to have to keep creating software for operating systems that are far more than 5 years old (I mean, 98 is a very retrofitted Win95 as it is, which is really DOS being pushed beyond what it was EVER meant to do reliably... and DOS wasn't reliable (it was abandoned)!
Not to say that backward compatibility isn't good to have.... but people running Win98 on 5 year old boxes should go and get themselves some el-cheapo computers (much cheaper today than they were back then!) that BLOW their computers away (hell, even the $200 walmart boxen blow 5 year old computers away! $200 folks, not $1000, not $2000... that's cheaper than upgrading your video card these days or even buying Windows in a Shrink-wrapped Cardboard box!).
I know, I know, not every company can afford to upgrade their computers... but the Internet bubble burst less than 5 years ago! What are they still doing with that crap?!?
-Joe
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