Office 12 Exposed

damieng writes "The Programmers Developer Conference (PDC) has unveiled the user interface for Microsoft Office 12. Bearing more than a passing resemblance to Aqua and brushed metal looks from Mac OS X the menus now appear to operate more like a tab popping-out the right toolbar instead of a sub-menu."

Comments

RTFA?

[thermopile]

Not a single comment and the site is alread slahsdotted. sigh.

But this is an interesting trend: Apple has monopolized the headlines recently. ArsTechnica is all about Apple, Slashdot can't seem to get enough of them, and now Microsoft is emulating its Apple product?

What's next, Intel Processors branded with "Apple Outside" stickers on them?

Re:Office Vista?

[Gaima]

A more interesting question is, are they going to have 7 versions of Office too?

Another page out of Apple's book...

[Anonymous Coward]

Coming soon: Office Nano - productivity tools for managing post-it notes.

just what I always wanted from a word proccessor!

[Lord Bitman]

Even Less of the screen actually showing my document! Hooray progress!

Re:even worse are misleading options

[Psykechan]

Check out this picture and despair.

Will be saved in: MS Word Document
File Type: C:\Users\Pat\Documents

If they can't figure out what goes where while they are rearranging the save dialog, what hope do the end users have of finding things.

Don't forget the

[Karma_fucker_sucker]

version that cures sleep disorders for whole groups at a time. Otherwise known as Power Point.

Re:Office 12 and Windows Stability

[Zemplar]

You must be new here. It's always Windows fault.

Re:Office Vista?

[cashman73]

7 versions of office might actually work, or perhaps better yet, 7 versions of Clippy, representing different demographic subtypes:

• Southern Clippy: "I see y'all are tryin' to write a lett-uh! Do ya need some help?"
• Ghetto Clippy: "Looks like you be tryin' to write a letter! Maybe we can help ya out, bitch!"
• British Clippy: "I see you are trying to write a letter. Let's work on that together, but right after our afternoon tea."
• Chinese Clippy: "I see you're trying to write a letter. Sorry, that option is not available to users of Windows Vista Starter Edition. Not to mention that the Communist party has banned communication anyways."
• Australian Clippy: "Ya tryin' to write a letter, mate! Alright, let's get started!"
• Iraqi Clippy: "Are you trying to write a letter bomb? Let me help you. First, what national leader do you want to target today?"

Re:Office Vista?

[athakur999]

Ricer Clippy: "Yo, I see you're writing a paper. It'd look mad tight if you changed the font of the title to Wing Dings and made it bright red."

Re:Office Vista?

[mr_gerbik]

You needed Clippy for that last post...

"I see you are trying to write a joke. I'm sorry, you do not appear to have the humor component installed."

Re:Office Vista?

[mforbes]

All of you forgot the dreaded Jewish Mother Clippy: "Oh, so you finally decide to write! What took you so long? It's not like your father and I have years left with you, you know! And when am are you gonna get married and give us some grandkids?!"