Hands-On Preview of Microsoft Office 2010

Barence writes "Microsoft has announced full details of Office 2010 and its plans for an accompanying suite of online applications, and PC Pro has been given special access to a technical preview. Contributing Editor Simon Jones gives his initial verdict on the new suite, concluding that there's 'still a long way to go in terms of fit and finish ... but overall Microsoft has made good strides in increasing usability, cohesiveness and collaboration.' This is followed by detailed first looks at Word 2010, Excel 2010, Outlook 2010 and PowerPoint 2010, with Outlook certainly looking to be the greatest beneficiary. And finally, a gallery of screenshots shows off all the new interface touches in Office 2010, including Outlook's conversation view, Word's picture-editing function and the new cut-and-paste preview option."

Comments

Re:who uses it anyway?

[Lumpy]

FUD? your spell checker in your word 2010 is broken.

98% of what is done in an office can be done in a really old version of Office. I disagree about office 97 though, Office 2000 actually fixed all the bugs and was fast.

Office 2007 offers nothing other than confusion. office 2003 added slowness.

Re:ribbons

[Hijacked Public]

I find it funny that the 'Group Program Manager' for UI design puts together a typically garbage littered powerpoint slide show to explain UI changes. That thing has less information density than a cereal box label, is full of chartjunk graphs and chartjunk flowcharts, seems obsessed with changing background colors on a slide by slide basis, and continues the bullet point soundbyte meme as nauseum.

The sole redeeming feature is that once he got rolling he used a lot of actual screenshots. I'm amazed the ribbon came out as decent as it did.