Quick-and-dirty snapshots of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
The Mac BU said it intends to deliver the Universal software suite for PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs — Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac — in the second half of 2007.
As part of its exhibit at the Macworld conference, the Redmond, Wash-based software giant has been offering quick previews of Word, one of the suite's components.
Some snapshots of the software's new user interface follow:
Please Note: Microsoft is not previewing Office 2008 or Word on terminals accessible by attendees and is instead offering brief presentations via a projector screen. Therefore image quality is poor.
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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.