MicroSoft may have done something right... Beta testing Office 2007 here

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

So far, so good. Really, pretty damn good. The Excel is more intuitive with better tools placed more prominately... Outlook has gone 21st century....


To me?

I like it.

[Taverner]

1. Well it's about time

Usually it only takes MS 3 times to gets something right...Office has been bad for a while...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. They made it like Open Office with Apple Windows....

Cocksuckers.

[Moochy]

5. Chrome transparencies and candy buttons

That trend in UI design is quite amusing to me. It's like every thing must look like candy and be 3d and woosh about the screen. I guess if you got extra CPU cycles and Graphics cards capable of all kinds of nifty tricks, why not use them? :shrug: feh.

I was at the Windows 98 Launch in San Francisco and Bill Gates was proud of his "chrome" 3d zooming and twirling windows supposedly slated for a Windows 2000 release. (It got pushed to xp, then to longhorn, now vista. )

[Drum]

8. A repost, but maybe on-topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc&search=touch%20screen
(a nifty demo of touch-screen technology.)
a la Minority Report....

[Moochy]

10. Thanks .. amazing looking

Now where can i get one?

[msongs]

16. your language is incendiary and perjurative nt

[Moochy]

2. Just avoid IE 7 like the plague

Until they have certified it, and even then I'd wait.

I got some nasty Browser Helper Objects that screwed my computer up, but good, and these particular BHO's don't affect IE 6 or Firefox (obviously)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. I'll also sugest avoiding the new Media Center...

Major resourse drag and I wonder about the information it shares.

[cool user name]

18. I've used IE7 at work and apart from some minor quarks ..

It's pretty fine.

[Moochy]

19. I much prefer the tabbed browsing in FF

Just be sure to run a scan with an anti-malware program like CounterSpy.

It also breaks Firefox's "default browser" settings even if FF is the default browser.
You can't click on Instant Message links or embedded links within outlook etc, and have them open up in FF.

[WatchWhatISay]

That's cause my son works there

He works on the compiler.

[WatchWhatISay]

6. That's cause my son works there

He works on the compiler.

[intaglio]

7. Outlook gone 21st what?

personally I'll stick with Opera and Opera mail

What about Word?

TBH with Vista coming I'm moving over to Linux

[tridim]

9. Have they finally fixed "rules" in Outlook?

Outlook is the one MS application that I've hated since day one. It's never worked very well.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

11. From what I've seen so far....

It's the shining point of the suite....

It pulls in Google Desktop and Thunderbird into the code,,,

In other words, they copied a bunch of shit.

[lonestarnot]

12. Yes and look what Diebold did here.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1396271232701024595&q=diebold&hl=en

[angstlessk]

17. You are like a 'bot'..you show up on EVERY post...I tried to view but

when I went there it said 'error on page' and would not load. I am on dailup and I am S L O W today! :hi:

[high density]

13. Have they fixed the "message recall" function in Outlook?

I can't believe how unreliable that is on an internal Exchange server at work with Outlook XP and Outlook 2003 clients. The similar functionality in Novell's Groupwise works perfectly.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. As far as my experence goes.... yes.

But it hasn't been that long.

[Moochy]

15. Just did the Test Drive of Excel 2007

And I was skeptical but I agree that Excel's new top menu bar thingamajig is a big improvement.
Those new Tool/menu-bar content areas are very informative.

Think tabbed-browseing meets the excel toolbar, with a content area for each tab.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

20. I really liked that as well...

While it doesn't seem to be a real change, the GUI is much better.