Office 12 Unveiled for First Time
September 13, 2005, 12:23 PM
In his keynote address Tuesday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates spoke about the company's new user experience. As part of this change, Microsoft's Chris Capossela showcased Office "12," which Gates introduced as the most significant release of the productivity software since Office 95.
Key points about Office 12:
- Replacement of traditional toolbars with new highly-graphical commands
- New UI is the most visible change Office since the introduction of the toolbar in 1997
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and the authoring part of Outlook
- No way to revert old "classic" UI style
- New layout choices to automatically choose from: "Pick and click"
A beta preview of Office 12 will ship this fall, and a final release is scheduled for the second half of 2006 alongside Windows Vista.
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1. Posted by bigmac on Sep 13, 2005 - 12:51 PM
This looks really slick.
2. Posted by Adrian79 on Sep 13, 2005 - 2:12 PM
yes!! i love office!!
3. Posted by drumcat on Sep 13, 2005 - 2:32 PM
When there's nothing left to add, change it cosmetically. Bad sign...
4. Posted by jbrocato on Sep 13, 2005 - 2:37 PM
How does one become a Beta user?
5. Posted by GeorgeSantayana on Sep 13, 2005 - 3:30 PM
Finally Windows users get a look and feel as nice as Mac Office.
6. Posted by hardgiant on Sep 14, 2005 - 11:00 AM
Yet another over priced Office version. Thank god that Open Office is getting better and better.
It's hard to choose between FREE vs $400.
7. Posted by Black-Wolf on Sep 14, 2005 - 12:23 PM
Nice!!!
I love it!!!! MS is the best!!
8. Posted by tmaioli on Sep 16, 2005 - 2:49 PM
Gotta love it! Nice........A very good product indeed. Did'nt think I needed to upgrade, but looking like I want too now. Plus XML everywhere, nice. Can't wait to play with it.
9. Posted by GoodThings2Life on Sep 17, 2005 - 12:05 PM
Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green conducted an interview-preview of the new UI... at 42 minutes (612MB) there is a LOT of detail about the new interface, but all I can say is that it is absolutely AWESOME! They really did a great job and despite my initial dislike of the looks, now that I've "seen" it in action I am really impressed.
http://channel9.msdn.com...Post.aspx?PostID=114720
10. Posted by vrcat50 on Sep 18, 2005 - 12:36 PM
How many versions are there going to be?