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Third Office for Mac 2011 Beta Reveals New Icons, Splash Screens, and More
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My biggest complaint about Outlook 2007 at work is that it lost the menu and went to a subset of the ribbon interface in one of the service pack releases. I HATE the frackin' ribbon!
The Mac:Office team has said that Office 2011 for Mac will have both a customizable ribbon interface *and* a menu. Which is a better deal than the Windows users are getting, IMO.
You have a good point, in all seriousness - it'd be helpful if these sorts of items would mention (consistently) whether it's an open or closed beta.
Wow, people care more about the icons than the content... I don't mind those, but I prefer the previous more. Anyway, I'm waiting for iWork to come.
Offiice 2010 has both a ribbon and a menu too - Windows users will be getting that first.
Looks great overall, but they have to change those icons... yeah im like the 69th person who said this.. haha
Hmmm... New Icons and Splash Screens
...Sounds like every other Microsoft Update. I'm sure it will come with the undesired removal and unnecessary relocation of common features that everyone has grown accustomed to.
Any Mac developer who merely rearranged menus and tried to pass it off as an upgrade would be burned in effigy.
Notwithstanding my Mac Fanboy purity standards, most things in Office for Mac still run better and more intuitively than they ever did on a PC.
...Sounds like every other Microsoft Update. I'm sure it will come with the undesired removal and unnecessary relocation of common features that everyone has grown accustomed to.
Any Mac developer who merely rearranged menus and tried to pass it off as an upgrade would be burned in effigy.
Notwithstanding my Mac Fanboy purity standards, most things in Office for Mac still run better and more intuitively than they ever did on a PC.
Outlook! YES!!!
I REALLY hope that there will be seamless/painless/super-duper easy sync, between Outlook Windows and Outlook Mac. Since they're both MS products, there should be no problem, but who knows...
But please no "Ribbons", I still can't get used to them...
I REALLY hope that there will be seamless/painless/super-duper easy sync, between Outlook Windows and Outlook Mac. Since they're both MS products, there should be no problem, but who knows...
But please no "Ribbons", I still can't get used to them...
Looks really good...I am almost getting to the point where I think MS is a good company, especially compared to Google.
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Thank you..... after I posted that, I was reading about pst files,,,,,,, changed my question. Thanks for further clarification.
I hope the speed is where it should be. It's sad that I run VMware Fusion JUST so I can run Office products. I own Office for Mac, but running the products in a Fusion Windows XP VM works so much better than the Mac version runs on a Mac. I swear there has to be some code hidden in Office that deliberately slows it down.
At least there won't be people speculating anymore that the previous icons were based on the hebrew alphabet because Israeli developers are the brightest...
Using Word 2011 daily I am now getting used to the ribbon. Its not as bad as it seems. You can disable it as well.
From what I hear its on the radar.
This was an invite only Beta as far as I know.
This is good to hear. Hopefully it comes sooner then way later!
You're focusing on the... ICONS?
I skimmed the first page of comments and can't believe how many of you are obsessing over icons...
For me, the icons could be blue, green, orange, and yellow piles of poo and I'd still be psyched knowing that we're getting Outlook to replace that awful Entourage we've been stuck with using all these years (along with getting other great features, too).
Icons don't make great apps.
I skimmed the first page of comments and can't believe how many of you are obsessing over icons...
For me, the icons could be blue, green, orange, and yellow piles of poo and I'd still be psyched knowing that we're getting Outlook to replace that awful Entourage we've been stuck with using all these years (along with getting other great features, too).
Icons don't make great apps.
