Windows Vista and Office 12 are going to suck for those that hate the UI

[13Gigatons]

Bluck I just don't like the layout and style:

Office 12 preview: http://pdc.xbetas.com/?page=o12preview1

Vista 5219: http://blog.uxevolutions.com/pdc05/entries/16

 

[dug777]

good thing i love it

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: dug777
good thing i love it and will get each for under $20

fixed to apply to me

 

[13Gigatons]

Office 12 looks like a ripoff of the Mac UI. They have really gone overboard with this one.

 

[Shawn]

jesus christ, that looks fugly and confusing as hell.

edit: office 12 that is

 

[13Gigatons]

The open save dialog box is just atrociously designed: http://pdc.xbetas.com/images/savedialog.jpg

 

[klah]

tools -> options -> advanced -> classic mode

 

[imported_goku]

Lol, WTF upgrade when anything above Office 97 is perfectly fine. Office 2000 is like practically modern now, there is seriously no need to upgrade past Office 2000 or windows 2000 for that matter, both very very functional. Only reason I've got Office XP is because it's free, not like I'd actually pay for anything from M$ past 2000...

 

[Hexx]

Look fine, that because I'm a mac user . (I built a gaming pc).

 

[Nocturnal]

It's nice.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: goku
Lol, WTF upgrade when anything above Office 97 is perfectly fine. Office 2000 is like practically modern now, there is seriously no need to upgrade past Office 2000 or windows 2000 for that matter, both very very functional. Only reason I've got Office XP is because it's free, not like I'd actually pay for anything from M$ past 2000...

QFT.

I have a legit copy of office 2000, and I've turned down free cracked copies of Office XP. Why? Not for moral reasons. No, even at a pricepoint of $FREE, it wasn't worth the effort to upgrade.

My laptop came preinstalled with office XP...the only 'feature' I notices was the resource hogging, default on voice bar.

 

[Nocturnal]

I'm waiting for an IE7 refresh.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: goku
Lol, WTF upgrade when anything above Office 97 is perfectly fine. Office 2000 is like practically modern now, there is seriously no need to upgrade past Office 2000 or windows 2000 for that matter, both very very functional. Only reason I've got Office XP is because it's free, not like I'd actually pay for anything from M$ past 2000...

QFT.

I have a legit copy of office 2000, and I've turned down free cracked copies of Office XP. Why? Not for moral reasons. No, even at a pricepoint of $FREE, it wasn't worth the effort to upgrade.

My laptop came preinstalled with office XP...the only 'feature' I notices was the resource hogging, default on voice bar.

Lol, I wouldn't consider that a "feature"... Yea if I *really* need a new office app which I doubt, I'd get Open office which I have to say is quite impressive. I recommended it to a kid who had office like 97 or something and I had reformatted his computer, didn't feel like getting a pirated version and told him to download it, well it seems to have worked it great for him!

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I'm waiting for IE7 to die and FF to have the functionality that IE 6 has.

Agreed.

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: goku
Lol, WTF upgrade when anything above Office 97 is perfectly fine. Office 2000 is like practically modern now, there is seriously no need to upgrade past Office 2000 or windows 2000 for that matter, both very very functional. Only reason I've got Office XP is because it's free, not like I'd actually pay for anything from M$ past 2000...

Office 2003 is great, they actually did improve Outlook with spam filters. The Open save dialogs are also well layout and easy to use. Windows Vista and Office 12 have poorly designed dialog boxes something I was hoping would be a big breakthrough in this version.

At least Windows XP and Windows XP x64 can still be used for the next couple of years.

 

[dighn]

interesting appearance. kind of pretty but doesn't seem very space efficient. i'm sure it can be turned down though...

 

[yhelothar]

Looks like they stole macromedia's UI.

 

[lokiju]

Solitaire looks wicked tight yo!!

 

[Codegen]

For the resource hogging, that's why I use my P233 w/ NT4 for work related stuff.

I'm going to try and see if Office 2003 works on it.

 

[Bassyhead]

Good thing they updated Solitare or people might not buy it

 

[tw1164]

So...what does excel look like?

 

[Digobick]

More screens: Windows Vista, Office 12

 

[nakedfrog]

Office 97 is fine, I haven't seen any useful features that have been added since then, but many that annoy me and cause problems.

 

[batmanuel]

Crap, that ugly sidebar is back on Vista. I thought they'd dropped that.

Also, I have to say that Outlook 2003 alone makes it worth the effort to upgrade. It is so much faster and better designed than the earlier versions.

 

[Lonyo]

Looks better than the default XP crap.