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First Look: Microsoft Office 2013
snydeq writes "Ever since the first beta editions of Windows 8 appeared, rumors have circulated over how Microsoft would revamp its other flagship consumer product, Office, to be all the more useful in the new OS. Would Office become touch-oriented and Metro-centric, to the exclusion of plain old Windows users? A first look at Office 2013 provides the short answer: No. 'Office 2013 has clearly been revised to work that much better in Windows 8 and on touch-centric devices, but the vast majority of its functionality remains in place. The changes made are mostly cosmetic — a way to bring the Metro look to Office for users of versions of Windows other than 8. Further, Office 2013 has been designed to integrate more closely with online storage and services (mainly Microsoft's), although those are thankfully optional and not mandatory.'"
Everybody knows the new metro interface will vastly increase productivity. Soon we will stop having to use keyboards and we can all live in the Star Trek future of colorful touch panels for everything! Multi tasking is sooooo 20th century.
To offset political mods, replace Flamebait with Insightful.
Microsoft is going to replace the hated "Ribbon" with a more-hated "Bow".
On the downside it will require untying to get at the menu item you want. On the bright side it will be configured as a Moebius strip, so if you don't find the menu item your looking for you can just keep clicking and you'll eventually get there.
I'm sure that he, along with other good staunch conservatives, would be unhappy with a Metro-centric interface, because it's only a short step from that to some sort of Cross-Platform interface, and from there it could end up completely Homogenous and involve multiple machines.
I am officially gone from
Microsoft needs to stop hiring college design grads. They are horrible, horrible people.
No. Microsoft should hire all of them, then they couldn't fsck up Linux.
Siri or something similar.
However we know it is fiction, because otherwise we would see much more sponsored responses.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
It pretty much knows what you are doing. You just need to choose
"change tea settings"
FTFY
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Jumplists, ribbon and skydrive integration are worthless
Out of touch neckbeard status confirmed.
Also, how is being able to embed executable code into a document a good thing?
An entire generation of crackers built their careers on exploiting executable code in Office documents. If not for Microsoft, they'd be cooking fries at McDonald's.
And I made mine in cargo shorts, but what we wear while we type is neither here nor there.
Someone said something positive about Microsoft! They must be paid to say such things. How dare they refuse to join our circle jerk hatred!
it lacks common sense too. Windows 8, Metro, latest Xbox dashboard, and now Office 13 - all huge fails. I don't know what the frak is happening to software these days but it's making me take a hard look at whether it's worth dealing with the technical issues of linux.
Windows 7 is decent, though I much prefer the control panel of XP - too many things you can't do in Win7 or have been buried (like repairing the connection when you're not connected... freaking genius troubleshooting that you need to connect to a network). Still running FF3.6 since the UI in the rest of the browsers out there drive me up the wall. Still running Office 2003 due to stupid freaking ribbons.
Apple: "There's no option for that"
Microsoft: "There used to be an option for that"
Linux: "There's an option for that, go code"
Google: "There's an option for that, it'll cost every stitch of privacy"
Mozilla: "Me too! (Not Responding)"