Visual Tour of Office 2007 Beta 2

feminazi writes "Computerworld has a review and visual tour of the newest installment of Office. No more toolbars & menus; those have been replace with 'ribbons.' Of the various products in the suite, Word is the most changed. Styles are easier to invoke, but no easier to create or understand. A couple of the redeeming characteristics is the ability to save as PDF and XPS and an improved Track Changes. Bigger spreadsheets are available in Excel -- over 1 million rows and over 16,000 columns per worksheet -- and new and better visualization abilities. Lots new in Outlook including multiple calendars and direct support for RSS feeds. And the apps all work together better than before. From the article: 'The major change in Beta 2 was the introduction of Office SharePoint Server.' This means that Sharepoint Server is required, but it also means more & better collaboration and advanced search abilities are supported."

Comments

Re:I guess it HAS to be better to sell it

[StarvingSE]

I doubt anyone ever needed or will need 1 million rows. Its called Marketing Speak 101. OMG Look!!! We have ONE MILLION ROWS!!! SOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN THE 65K IN THE PREVIOUS VERSION.

They have to have justification for a new version somehow, so that you can feel good about giving them more $$$ for something you basically already have.

Re:I guess it HAS to be better to sell it

[vleck]

Excel 2003 only supports 65536 rows (2^16) and 256 (2^8) columns...