Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft was planning on giving out the Office 2010 Technical Preview to select testers in July on an invite-only basis. Office 2010 will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and both flavors have been leaked to torrent sites and the like. Multiple screenshots of each application are available. '... some applications have changed a lot more than others. The ribbon seems to be on every application now, which is great for consistency's sake. ... The biggest change, in my opinion, is that the no file/orb menu is no longer a menu. When you click the colored office button, you get a screen that is shown in the second screenshot for each application.'"

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Let me be the first to say:

[AndGodSed]

No Thanks.

I have everything I need in OpenOffice, and it is better priced too...

Just what we need

[russotto]

More of that awful Ribbon. Gratuitously modal interfaces are just SO helpful. I mean, I appreciate that Microsoft is actually trying to innovate, but they're really no good at it.

Re:Can only improve on great from here

[cheros]

Maybe you should smoke less.

1 - why do you need a Excel to be a portable database? If you must process that amount of data for anything analytical you are in serious danger of (a) losing data and (b) lose audit capability. If your model is worth anything to the business you should consider using proper tools for the job. If you crunch financials I think you may actually be in breach of a few laws.

2 - if you need a database, use a database. That's why it's called a database - it specialises in these things. Trust me. I don't know about the new Access, but the "old" Access is a but Mickey Mouse in that aspect as it can't talk to proper databases without some help. But you you could always install OpenOffice Base instead, would also mean you could use a Real OS to do the work.

3 - I'm glad the ribbon works for you. That does, however, indicate that you're not really a power user because anyone who wants to use more advanced functionality now has to hunt for it all (which is another reason why OpenOffice has become so popular, I think). So if MS has "nailed" it for one, that hammer has hit quite a few times past the nail for others.

I've used both. OOo is driving me up the wall as well at times, but for more acceptable reasons (I admit that is slightly subjective - it works better for ME), the "WTF did that feature go" search takes too much of my time. Try working with doc variables, for instance. I wish you luck.

No sale for me.

Re:People are going to hate me for this

[Nom du Keyboard]

The Equation editing is vastly improved,

This seems to be the only positive thing ribbon FanBois can say about 2007/2010. And just how many Word users have used the equation editor -- even once?