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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."
The first time I ever used a threaded message client was WinVN newsreader way back in the wilds of 1993. The first email reader I used that was threaded was Eudora... pre-2000. I'm very sure that tin supported threads before I ever saw an ethernet cable.
So here it is 2009, and Microsoft is just NOW including a threaded view in Outlook.
Yeah. Way to innovate there, Redmon. Congratulations on entering the 1990s!
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The last good version of Microsoft Word was Word 5.1 for the Mac, and that was over 17 years ago! They should stop throwing all the garbage in there and just make it extensible with plug-ins like Photoshop or a web browser.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Documentation and training are a huge part of M$ business.
love is just extroverted narcissism
IMHO, Office 2007 was such a gigantic leap backwards in terms of its UI, that any "progress" towards "increased usability" this time out I fear will be in the wrong direction.
Understanding is a three edged sword. - Ambassador Kosh Naranek, Babylon 5
Still the survey's numbers look good, but don't really make a lot of sense because of the way they're presented. What's more, users with negative opinions are far more likely to take such a survey than those who simply have no strong opinion one way or the other. So that market is largely unknown.
So basically you're saying: "Statistics are good but unless they agree with my point of view I'm going to dismiss them." Rock on!