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New Version of Outlook for Mac Leaked in Screenshots, Release Date Still Unclear

terrible ui

MS lost it. doesn't matter, whether it's windows or OS X, the GUI layout is terrible. all the new portables and desktops adopted the 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio, which basically removed vertical space from the screen.

and MS is pushing this terrible changing graphical menus, which are pretty much redundant as all functions are reachable via keystrokes and the menubar, and eat up a huge amount of screen real estate. if you check it out, you'll end up with so less workspace left, you almost can't have an 1/3 height page shown with readable font on a 13" laptop. just because the 20% of the screen is consumed by this unusable cryptic looking icons and symbols. why, oh god, why?

not to mention that horrible circle shaped office logo on windows.

getting stuff done is a lot more faster using keyboard shortcuts anyway...
 
5 Reasons why I'm probably not getting this version of Microsoft Office.

  1. Microsoft just made the Yosemite theme look ugly.
  2. I never liked the ribbon. It seemed disorganized and bloated from the very beginning.
  3. I finally found some of the "missing" features in iWork.
  4. Sharing is easier in iWork.
  5. Bootcamp :p
 
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If Microsoft includes the good equation editor in Powerpoint and the drawing canvas in Word, and if I can get into a public beta, I will weep for joy.
 
Was only noodling on the lack of a successor to Office:mac 2011 earlier. I'm having to do more and more work on Office 2013 in a Parallels VM these days. I'm starting to strongly prefer 2013 to mac 2011:

  • Vastly superior feature set
  • Much prefer the 2013 ribbon to the 2011 ribbon/button bar hybrid. (Hey, I liked the ribbon in 2007 and ever since. Sue me.)
  • OneNote 2013 is much more feature complete than OneNote mac. Copying text from Mail:app to OneNote manages to screw up fonts completely whether using paste, paste and preserve formatting or paste and use target formatting. [Edit: not an Outlook mac 2011 fan at all. Please don't ask me to use it]
  • Full OneDrive integration of 2013 is great. The (purposely?) half @ssed OneDrive/SkyDrive integration in 2011 pales in comparison.

My only real issue with Office 2013 is the lack of contrast between the ribbon/chrome and the document area meaning it can be difficult to readily see where content and application chrome end and begin. This can be helped by adopting the dark theme in options but is still a way off of ideal.

Office iPad is terrific (esp OneNote), the iPhone Office app is good enough for very light editing (i.e. noting a spend on petrol/gas in the weekly budgeting spreadsheet etc) - it's just the awful by comparison mac suite for when full on productivity and editing is required. Almost tempted for a low end Surface just for Office as the lack of reliable Macbook Pro/'up' Parallels VM means constantly having to suspend or power up/down the VM.
 
swm said:
MS lost it. doesn't matter, whether it's windows or OS X, the GUI layout is terrible. all the new portables and desktops adopted the 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio, which basically removed vertical space from the screen.

and MS is pushing this terrible changing graphical menus, which are pretty much redundant as all functions are reachable via keystrokes and the menubar, and eat up a huge amount of screen real estate. if you check it out, you'll end up with so less workspace left, you almost can't have an 1/3 height page shown with readable font on a 13" laptop. just because the 20% of the screen is consumed by this unusable cryptic looking icons and symbols. why, oh god, why?

not to mention that horrible circle shaped office logo on windows.

getting stuff done is a lot more faster using keyboard shortcuts anyway...
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You have a good point. I think they should look at icons on the side as an option.
 
Minging

Ribbon-tastic; lets waste all that screen real-estate with pointless and useless icons. They've lost the plot and lost the market.

Unless it's properly cheap, it'll be of very limited impact. No doubt it'll be part of Microsoft's fantasy of charging $100/year (or whatever) for their office 264 offering.
 
outlook is to apple mail as verizon is to t-mobile

I would switch to Outlook as soon as I would switch to Verizon.

Which is never.
 
Simple modern style

That inevitable hallmark of a Microsoft program, that huge ribbon of icons at the top of the page, is neither simple nor modern. Microsoft never will lose its addiction to clutter, will it? It's as if the design engineers who used to work for AOL have migrated en masse to Redmond.
 
I've always loved Outlook. Ever since i first opened it on my Toshiba laptop running the Windows 95.

But that interface has become so overwhelming. I like that the new versions of the other office suites have been decluttered. I hope they do the same with Outlook.

Oh, and bring back syncing with Google please MS.
 
Any hope of right-to-left text entry in Word? {forlorn sigh} It's the only thing at this point that could get me to update from Office 2008...
 
It can only support iCloud if it's released on Mac Appstore. Not sure what the chances of that will be.
 
New Version of Outlook for Mac Leaked in Screenshots, Release Date Still Unclear

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I hope VBA works better
 
tliede20 said:
ON all that is GOOD, please let this come out before Christmas! I'm so over the Mac Suite at this point; there ARE SO MANY FEATURES left out on the MAC Version it's so annoying! I truly hope this is soon; a friend who works for Microsoft told me that it's been done for a while and that Apple is holding them back from release?

Hmmmm...
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That person lied to you. There is absolutely no reason or benefit for Apple to hold back Microsoft from putting out a newer version of Office for Mac. It helps Apple's product sales and Apple has never tried to compete it's iWork suite against MS Office.
 
It's kinda weird. I look at it, and it looks good - or has the potential to look good, and then you look at that ribbon with those big unsightly icons, and I can't help but think .. who designed this?? I feel like I could work at Microsoft for one week and turn the design into something spectacular.
 
wakey said:
The sooner the better if you ask me. Outlook (and Office 2011) massively need updating. If it looks like Onenote/Office on the iPad then I'm all for that.
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it need more features though. To be honest oneNote is a ******** joke on both iOS and OSX. It actually makes me :mad: it's so bad...
 
HenryDJP said:
That person lied to you. There is absolutely no reason or benefit for Apple to hold back Microsoft from putting out a newer version of Office for Mac. It helps Apple's product sales and Apple has never tried to compete it's iWork suite against MS Office.
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And, I'd just like to add, Microsoft fills its versions of Office for Mac with "features" that actually do not exist on the Mac version. It took them months before they finally acknowledged that the Mac version does not support side-by-side calendars (which is a critical thing for people who manage calendars for multiple people in the workplace), but instead overlays them. Took six months for them to even update their website to fix that error.

I do not trust Microsoft to give an accurate picture of their software, and certainly don't think Apple would hold back on the one business application considered ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY in the workplace today.
 
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