Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Sep 2005 16:10 UTC
Screenshots of Office 12 have been published. You'll be amazed (for better or worse, your call). "As you can see, Microsoft is trying to do away with the 'legacy' menu bar. In newer Vista builds the menu bar is turned off by default (although it can be reactivated temporarily by pressing alt). In Office 12, the menus have been replaced with tab-like buttons. The only 'legacy' menu item that remains is the file menu, but it has completely been redesigned. The file menu now looks like the Windows XP start menu and can be customized as well." You can find more information and shots on Microsoft's website.
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2005-07-07
Assuming they add one more row of buttons for Office 13, it will take a 20" monitor just to see your document. We'll be back to one line displays, just like the old dedicated word processors.
Nice to know the File menu will look like the XP Start menu. That atrocity is the single thing I hate most about the XP UI (fortunately it can be switched to Usable (Classic) Mode pretty easily.) If Office 12 is as usable and intuitive as previous versions, it will probably take 15 minutes wading through Options dialogs and tabs to find the checkbox.)