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Microsoft unveils Office 2004, Virtual PC 7
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Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: Microsoft unveils Office 2004, Virtual PC 7
Posted on MacBytes.com
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So what?
I see nothing tremendously interesting about the new Office suite.
The new notpad thing doesn't seem to add much, the tabs are interesting, but there are share/freeware apps that do this better. I personally don't like the dimming tool bars. The tool bars are out of the way anyway. Translucent or not, they can't be over the things you are working on or you can't click on things. The face thing is just eye-candy that has no use. The fact that you have to go to a formatting pallet to set notifications is just silly to me. That should be a simple right/control click menu item, or better yet a simple function key. Trying to operate a pallet while trying to keep up with note taking is a hinderance.
The whole "page preview" they touted for Excel should have been incorporated over 15 years ago. I can't believe it took Microsoft almost two decades to figure out that people wanted a simple way to get a spreadsheet to fit properly on standard paper sizes.
In all, I don't know why Steve have Roz so much stage time that would have been better used for something else.
Office 2004 is yet another version that I won't spend money on and won't garner any space on my dives from what I've seen so far.
I see nothing tremendously interesting about the new Office suite.
The new notpad thing doesn't seem to add much, the tabs are interesting, but there are share/freeware apps that do this better. I personally don't like the dimming tool bars. The tool bars are out of the way anyway. Translucent or not, they can't be over the things you are working on or you can't click on things. The face thing is just eye-candy that has no use. The fact that you have to go to a formatting pallet to set notifications is just silly to me. That should be a simple right/control click menu item, or better yet a simple function key. Trying to operate a pallet while trying to keep up with note taking is a hinderance.
The whole "page preview" they touted for Excel should have been incorporated over 15 years ago. I can't believe it took Microsoft almost two decades to figure out that people wanted a simple way to get a spreadsheet to fit properly on standard paper sizes.
In all, I don't know why Steve have Roz so much stage time that would have been better used for something else.
Office 2004 is yet another version that I won't spend money on and won't garner any space on my dives from what I've seen so far.
Re: So what?
There wasn't really much to say, best get Microsoft in to pad out the event a bit.
Maybe because Apple themselves didn't have much to say? Other than the new iPod "rip off" Mini, NO hardware updates
There wasn't really much to say, best get Microsoft in to pad out the event a bit.
Re: Re: So what?
That was my exact point!
No iPod software updates....
No talk about the notebooks...
No talk about even the G5 desktops and the promised 3G by the the summer or whatever.
No talk about Panther.3
Nothing at all new in iTunes, which is surprising, given that they are focused so much on it.
So, let the guy from Microsoft show off print preview, then let that kid record an entire song, and then play the entire song back to us to prove that the app could record stuff.
Man, I lost sleep looking forward to neat new stuff. I gotta quit reading MacRumors and getting all false-hopey.
Originally posted by edesignuk
Maybe because Apple themselves didn't have much to say? Other than the new iPod "rip off" Mini, NO hardware updates
That was my exact point!
No iPod software updates....
No talk about the notebooks...
No talk about even the G5 desktops and the promised 3G by the the summer or whatever.
No talk about Panther.3
Nothing at all new in iTunes, which is surprising, given that they are focused so much on it.
So, let the guy from Microsoft show off print preview, then let that kid record an entire song, and then play the entire song back to us to prove that the app could record stuff.
Man, I lost sleep looking forward to neat new stuff. I gotta quit reading MacRumors and getting all false-hopey.
Nermal -- You might run out of air...
They said its coming... but don't release photos... or demo it?
Um... what gives?
They said its coming... but don't release photos... or demo it?
Um... what gives?
I think that the thrust of Apple and Steve is toward the rest of our lives.
Office 2004 is quit impressive with Notes. The suite has become an industry standard. According to the introduction there are innovations for the Mac that are not available for the Windows. They have come to realize all that the Mac can accomplished, seemed to be please with the product.
With the VPC 7 we will be able to take advantage of the G5 hopefully.
Office 2004 is quit impressive with Notes. The suite has become an industry standard. According to the introduction there are innovations for the Mac that are not available for the Windows. They have come to realize all that the Mac can accomplished, seemed to be please with the product.
With the VPC 7 we will be able to take advantage of the G5 hopefully.
Like transparent palletes? A friggin spreadsheet that knows how big the piece of paper is?
To be honest, by the time I got out of college (wwwaaayyyy back in 1996), no one was yet using notebook computers for notetaking, so I don't know how useful that Notes thing really would be. We took notes with these pieces of wood we called "pencils." Archaic! I doubt I'd even use it today, since I spent most of my notetaking drawing circuits and math, something that won't be really reasonable without a tablet kind of thing.
if that Notes app is the same as the one in Office 2003 it will be good, as all the PC scribes seemed to rave about it.
I think it's GREAT that MS had such a high profile in the keynote. Office and VPC are so important to getting more PC users to make the switch.
I wouldn't have switched without them. And I wouldn't even consider changing my Council (I'm IT Manager) if there was no Office for Mac.
I think it's GREAT that MS had such a high profile in the keynote. Office and VPC are so important to getting more PC users to make the switch.
I wouldn't have switched without them. And I wouldn't even consider changing my Council (I'm IT Manager) if there was no Office for Mac.
I specifically said that I'm *not* holding my breath, therefore I shouldn't run out of air.... I hope not anyway