looks decent, and seems like allot of the inspiration comes from iwork, meh.

Jeez, even on a Mac, Word still looks soooo booooooooring.

In my opinion, the only way to actually improve MS Office/Word is to remove features, not rearrange the ones that are already there. Sometimes (many times), less is more.

Looks quite interesting and looks a bit more mac like in some ways.

Poor guys over there in Redmond,
they seem to have completely worked in vain. This looks even more mac-unlike than the first beta of OpenOffice running with X11. What a horrible interface! Bloated. This looks like everything MS has not understood when writing software: they throw everything in yout face. What good is it to have a constant look at 25 different layout options when you chose one already? Same goes for formatting. This cries for illegibility. Wild formatting without a clue. Office ladies will sigh at the options blocking them from writing, writers will search for options in a mess of icons.
What a piece of crap. Money don't buy brains, Miss Ho.

It seems that Microsoft is the largest user of the "Command C" option, they seem to copy everything.

To me it looks like they have just taken pages and created an inferior merger with word. There are a lot of design elements that are stolen from OSX. Same with Vista but that is old news.

Still I will get it since it fits in with OSX and hopefully it will be scriptable using apple script if it is compiled with X Code for real....

Let s wait and see.


By the way

The day Mircosoft makes a product that doesn't suck will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners.

Steiner

I think the UI would like a lot better is they used a unified toolbar instead of the old pinstripes...

But I guess that would make it look like Pages. \

Hmmm, Pages' uglier, fatter sister.

Who are MacBU aiming this at?

It's going to be totally different to the old Mac Word, alienating their old customers and it's also totally different to any version of Word on Windows, alienating people who use both systems.

MacBU, if you're listening, you're one ace-in-the-hole was compatibility with Windows. You're going out of your way to screw it up.

Roll on Pages v3.

Well, it seems that the formatting palette disapeared. Is it false or did the MBu replace it with an page_like_non_user_friendly inspector ?