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

I wonder

[Bananatree3]

I wonder how big this thing is going to be. I mean, this is probably going to be the biggest, most bloated office product on the market. I am not knocking its features, but just looking at the system requirements for the previous Office XP, 2003, 2000, etc., this will be one BLOATED office product.

Re:What do you call it when Linux apps do it?

[xtracto]

Me? balant ripoff.

As KDE trying to mimic the IMNHO shitty and useless MS Windows "start menu" (does anyone *really* find useful having to hunt through all the submenus to get run an application [just look at the last Knoppix KDE start menu]).

Linux zealots?
Probably they will call it "Nice features match & compatibility".

Of course, not all the Linux applications try to ripoff their closed source counterpart (you mention Photoshop, but The GImp interface is quite different from the one of Adobe's software