This shows just how HOT! MS Office 2007 is going to be!

[RideFree]

Yes mods, I know it is linked to tgdaily

This link leads to a slide show of a closer look at Microsoft Office 2007 (Scott M. Fulton, III).

This is undoubtedly Microsoft's greatest accomplishment in a long time. It is reasonable to state that it is brilliant.
We will all be obtaining Office 2007 when it becomes available...start saving your quarters.

 

[RideFree]

Lighten up...it's free!

 

[13Gigatons]

Wrong forum but office 2007 is pretty good.

 

[imported_Ned Flanders]

Yeah, I love the Beta.

edit - I used their menu ideas in my latest project too

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
Wrong forum but office 2007 is pretty good.

Not sure how this is the wrong forum, but Office 2007 does look nice. I just wish I had more use of it than Outlook.

 

[Nothinman]

I just find it odd that anyone thinks an office app is "hot". I mean really, who goes "I have to do more documentation, sweet!".

 

[clickynext]

Using the beta probably gives you a better look at office than looking at a slideshow does.

 

[Looney]

Office 2007 has been fantastic for me. I just love it... the new layout just makes Word and Excel soooo much better.

 

[episodic]

StarOffice for life 🙂

 

[archcommus]

I've been quite happy with Beta 2. I really wish the new UI was in Outlook, though.

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: episodic
StarOffice for life 🙂

I can't get it working in Ubuntu.. 🙁 Guess that was a waist of money.


As to this post, I hope someday MS or someone scraps the whole idea of the Office sweet being seperate from the OS.. My entire computer should be OFFICE, now windows w\Office or Unix w\Office.. I know it wouldn't have any appeal to the average home user but most Offices around the world would like it..

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
Wrong forum but office 2007 is pretty good.

Not sure how this is the wrong forum, but Office 2007 does look nice. I just wish I had more use of it than Outlook.

It was orignally in Hot deals forum and a mod moved it to the this forum.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I just find it odd that anyone thinks an office app is "hot". I mean really, who goes "I have to do more documentation, sweet!".

Agree - what the hell can be hot about an office suite?
At best it can be moderately less of a PITA to use. But hot??

 

[Pocatello]

It looks awesome. I'm still using office 97.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Pocatello
It looks awesome. I'm still using office 97.

As much as I use office... wordperfect 5.0 would work for me.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I just find it odd that anyone thinks an office app is "hot". I mean really, who goes "I have to do more documentation, sweet!".

Agree - what the hell can be hot about an office suite?
At best it can be moderately less of a PITA to use. But hot??

it would be pretty hot if it would write my term papers for me. that would be sweet.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Pocatello
It looks awesome. I'm still using office 97.

Same here.
Might try to find the Beta 2. It's free right?

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: Pocatello
It looks awesome. I'm still using office 97.

Same here.
Might try to find the Beta 2. It's free right?

Free to use until Febuary 1, 2007

 

[aswedc]

Now we know what OpenOffice will look like in three years.

 

[stash]

I mean really, who goes "I have to do more documentation, sweet!"

Uh, people who make a living writing things? Or who make a living giving presentations? Or people who make a living crunching numbers in a spreadsheet? Or business managers looking to improve the productivity of their employees? Come on, don't make such a trollish statement.

Yes, people really do get excited about these things. And they aren't techies either.

 

[Nothinman]

Uh, people who make a living writing things? Or who make a living giving presentations? Or people who make a living crunching numbers in a spreadsheet?

I know some of the people who make their living doing that at the company that I work and I don't think any of them would be visibly excited about this. Sure I could see them saying "Cool, now this'll be simpler" or "Hey, that'll save me time here", but nothing even close to "Wow, Office 2007 is HOT!". And frankly most of the people I know that use MS Office at all curse it on a regular basis and would just be happy if the new versions maintained their current levels of productivity.

 

[masteraleph]

Originally posted by: IamDavid

As to this post, I hope someday MS or someone scraps the whole idea of the Office sweet being seperate from the OS.. My entire computer should be OFFICE, now windows w\Office or Unix w\Office.. I know it wouldn't have any appeal to the average home user but most Offices around the world would like it..

Can't be done to to legal reasons. The minute they propose that, Wordperfect et al sue claiming unfair monopoly. This is the same reason that they're going to have an MS antivirus program available for XP but not integrate it- Symantec et al would sue them as soon as the thought was mentioned.

 

[Nothinman]

As to this post, I hope someday MS or someone scraps the whole idea of the Office sweet being seperate from the OS..

It's suite, not sweet. And why? What do you hope to gain by integrating the two?

 

[clickynext]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

As to this post, I hope someday MS or someone scraps the whole idea of the Office sweet being seperate from the OS..

It's suite, not sweet. And why? What do you hope to gain by integrating the two?

More importantly, what would THEY gain by integrating the two? They can sell a new version of Office every few years and make a lot of money. Putting it with Windows and raising the price wouldn't make sense for them because 1) Not everyone needs office, 2) Sales would go down if price were raised.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: fisher
it would be pretty hot if it would write my term papers for me. that would be sweet.

An Automatic CS Paper Generator

But back on topic, if you manually style headers one by one etc then this product may not be that exciting to you. But if you're one who actually uses a word processor the way it was meant to be used, then you'll get excited with each release.

I found it interesting how the default font isn't Times New Roman anymore.