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Steven Frank from Panic discusses the Office 2010 preview. ⇒

   29 April 2009, late evening

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  1. Has he even used Office 2007? Cause the ui preview for Office 2010 doesn’t look that different from the ui in 2007. His comments don’t really indicate that he understands how the ui in Office 2007 works cause it seems like everything is new to him.

    by Iluvitar on April 30 2009, 1:56 am   #

  2. So you’re saying if he had used 2007 for any stretch of time, the 2010 demo wouldn’t look ugly and obtuse? Because that is a bold claim.

    by ramanan on April 30 2009, 9:07 am   #

  3. It does look pretty much like Office 2007. The ‘ribbon’ and all that stuff are infuriating for the first month or three of use, but after you break down and submit to it (really) it somehow becomes intuitive. Two years on I still get annoyed once in a while because it’s so radically different from the old Word, but it somehow does ‘work’ better…i don’t think this comment was as illuminating as I had intended. Anyway, Office is one of the few things that Microsoft does well.

    by Ananthan on April 30 2009, 11:10 am   #

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