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Office 12 Beta 1 Out

November 17, 2005 |

Here’s some info on the release:

I have to say that there’s not much in here for consumers–this is clearly aimed at business. For a business customer that does custom development using things like the Windows Workflow Foundation, though, there’s real benefit to the improvements in the backend.

The new UI rollout will only affect the “core” office applications–specialist tools like Project, Visio and so forth will continue to use the old interface. The new UI looks pretty but sucks up a lot of screen space–you’re going to want a high-res monitor to really benefit from it. I’m going to have to see it in action before I make a final judgment, but my first reaction is that Microsoft has made a well-intentioned but serious mistake here. Take a look for yourself.

There’s something about the new UI that makes the complexity of MS Office much more obvious than before. Sure, it was hard to figure out how to do some stuff, but 90% of people dealt with that problem by simply not using those features. Corporations are going to have to re-train their staff to use the new UI, and those users who have figured out how to get to the functions they need by rote, rather than by understanding what the application can do, are going to panic. It’s just so much more in your face than the old one was.

Between Office 12 and Windows Vista, Microsoft is asking its corporate customers to make a huge transition in their IT infrastructure. Microsoft’s future will depend on whether or not those customers agree.


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