http://www.osnews.com/story/26188/Microsoft_OneNote_MX_preview_the_first_Metro_Office_application Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 11:28:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?527204 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527204 I've got to say, I have to admit the dial selector is pretty sweet. The eyecandy is impressive, the interface is neat, the functionality is interesting, and it seems reasonably practical and even a little fun.

Trouble is that I don't need OneNote for anything. Why is the only Microsoft Produced Metro app that I've seen done really well an app I doubt I'll ever use again.

Seriously, if IE 10 was half as slick and wasn't so damn buggy I might actually take an interest.

Oh well. Pleasantly surprised by Office 2013, not exactly blown away, but I'll use it over 2010, so a marginal victory there.

In the meantime OneNote did precisely one useful thing for me - introduce me to the Microsoft Store - where everything seems to be free for the moment.

Seriously Microsoft - you should have called it 'App Center' or 'Metropolis' or something. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (saidge@yahoo.com) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527205 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527205 ...and came out...as I went in. Uhmm, I mean, launched the store app, found onenote mx, installed, ran, and kept getting some error messages like (I'm trying to remember exactly) the body of the received message contained a fault. That came up a few times and then the whole app went away somewhere. Good app. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527206 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527206 Haha "Metropolis" +1 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527210 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527210 I have the current 2010 version installed. I'm utterly underwhelmed, but then I sold my self to evernote a long time ago. I use evernote for EVERYTHING!

I'm willing to be educated though, so I'll check out this new version... when I have some kind of machine that will run it. (assuming as it's Metro, it doesn't run on Windows 7??) Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (henderson101) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527214 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527214 ...what kind of article is this? Not all of us are / have the desire to be running Windows 8 and can just test this out on a whim. If you like it so much, where are the screenshots illustrating exactly what it is you like so much? This might as well be a press release. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moochman) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527216 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527216 A video showing a demo of the app would be useful. I just looked on Youtube but couldn't find any. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bouhko) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527218 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527218 I hope this helps a bit: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/office-2013-beta2/office-2013-p... Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (avgalen) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527220 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527220 I've seen similar dial selectors a few times for use with tablets. I think Autodesk Sketchbook Pro: ( http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/images/sketchbook_pro_image_enhance... ) was the first time I came across it several years ago. There are probably earlier examples as well.

There are two or three different radial selectors in that app. See the bottom left of this screen: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/limage?siteID=123112&image... Edited 2012-07-18 13:35 UTC Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (arpan) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527224 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527224 Aren't circular context menus heavily patent encumbered still. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jburnett) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527233 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527233 I designed a similar functionaloty years ago, trying to create another ui for the AmigaOS. I should have a video somewhere... Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaBlitter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527234 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527234 Isn't this taken directly from their Courier tablet? Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gedmurphy) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527235 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527235 Please post some more information about this. I remember some talk on Amiga forums (years ago) about radial menus, and I've always thought it was a good idea. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Pro-Competition) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?527270 http://www.osnews.com/thread?527270 Yeah, other apps have had radial menus.

In Microsoft's Office Next blog today they post a link to a wikipedia article that lists some previous radial menu apps.

Office Next: Using the new Office with touch
http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2012/07/18/using-the-...

The "Radial Menus" section of that article has a link to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_menu
which lists "Notable implementations" - apps that have implemented radial (or "pie") menus. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MollyC) Comments