MS Office Version 12 Is Coming!
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005xBetas has a link to screenshots of the new version of MS Office. Shiny new interface, but they went and did something completely unexpected: There’s only one menu, the File menu. Everything else has been relegated to little tabs, as seen here:
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That took some guts on the part of some Microsoft software engineer. I really, really hope that there’s some “classic menus” option someplace, but hopefully this will help new users to think of it as less complicated.
It really does look slick and polished, and if it were a new product, instead of being the 12th iteration of an old product, I’d be cheering for it wholeheartedly. It does have the potential to be a lot easier to use than the old interface. I just worry that it’ll be difficult for people used to the old interface to adapt to it.
