Office 12 pre-beta screenshots
Paul Thurrott has some interesting screenshots of the office 12 programs running on Microsoft Windows Vista. He even included some of the new onenote program which looks pretty cool.
‘In an era of increased competition from OpenOffice.org and StarOffice 8, critics had charged that there was very little anyone could do with an office productivity suite. After all, they argued, word processing is word processing. And with OpenOffice.org taking on the Office 2003 look and feel, that argument seemed correct. Microsoft, the story went, was doomed to watching its competitors slowly catch up.
The Office 12 user interface has changed all that. Making a bold move–rather than “painting the pig” as they had with previous versions–Microsoft elected to dramatically change the Office user interface for the first time ever. It seems the menu and toolbar-based interface had become obsolete somewhere along the way. I’ll have a lot more to write about this in the near future.’
Head on over and check it out here