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diff --git a/old/published/msoffice2007/office screenshot.txt b/old/published/msoffice2007/office screenshot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64e9f27 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/msoffice2007/office screenshot.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Screenshots:
Microsoft Office 2007 has a radically redesigned interface, dubbed Ribbon, as well as some compelling new features. Here are some of the highlights and new features in Office 2007.
office-screen-1.jpg
The Ribbon interface in Microsoft Word. Each Ribbon element has a small icon in the corner, clicking the icon will bring up the old-style dialog box, hovering on the element shows the dialog box preview and, when applicable, provides links to the relevant help page.
office-screen-2.jpg
Ribbon interface in hidden mode. Moving the mouse over any of the tabs will reveal the Ribbon, but when you don't need it it stays out of the way providing the cleanest workspace of any Office version yet. The top menu can be customized to hold all your frequent menu items.
office-screen-3.jpg
In this shot the document has a default style applied, but the mouse hovers over the "Title" style so that the selected text automatically previews the changes without having to apply them. Clicking the style will apply it, mousing off will leave it as it was.
office-screen-4.jpg
This is Word in the "blogging mode." Ribbon elements are contextual, in this case, because a picture is selected, the picture tools become available. Deselecting the picture would cause those tool to hide themselves. As you might imagine the HTML output of blogging mode is somewhat bloated with inline styles, but on the brighter side, the output of this simple example was at least standards compliant.
office-screen-5.jpg
Excel got a serious makeover as well, this shot shows the new conditional formatting tools and, as with the previews in Word, hovering over a format style gives you a preview without having to commit to it. The blue bars on the sample graph are being applied by the conditional format rule that the mouse is hovering over.
office-screen-6.jpg
Another new Excel feature, the top half shows the table header as it looks when opened, in the bottom section you can see that as you scroll down the table header labels jump into the cell header so you can keep track of your columns.
office-screen-7.jpg
Outlook doesn't have the Ribbon bar in the explorer pane, but it is used when composing new messages. New Outlook features include a live preview for other Office documents which means you can read Word Excel and other files inline rather than having to open them separately. Microsoft has published the live preview specs so others, like Adobe PDF files, may be available at some point. Also note the To-Do bar, in this case showing the calendar view.
office-screen-8.jpg
Outlook also has an improved calendar view which includes an overlay feature. Multiple calendars can be viewed on top of each other which makes it easy to see where schedules overlap and conflict.
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Powerpoint uses Ribbon and sports enough new themes to keep Al Gore happy. As with the rest of the Ribbon apps, there are live previews of formatting changes.
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The Ecma approval was not unanimous, IBM cast a strong no vote and IBM vice-president for open source and standards, Bob Sutor, writes on his blog, "what the world needs today...is a real open standard versus a vendor-dictated spec that documents proprietary products via XML."
There is already an international standard for office documents. The format, known as Open Document Format (ODF), is XML-based and uses industry standard tools like SVG and MathML to render complex graphics and equations. Sutor says of the IBM vote, "ODF is about the future, OpenXML is about the past."
In spite of what its name might imply, Microsoft's OpenXML is not an open source spec like ODF. OpenXML will be licensed for free, but given the size of the spec (over 6000 pages) and the fact that it eschews industry standard tools in favor of proprietary Microsoft options, it can hardly be called "open."
Microsoft's move is a "me too" response to ODF. Only when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts put forth the proposal last year to change its default file format for state agencies to ODF, did Microsoft to submit Open XML as an alternative standard.
Microsoft's Alan Yates, General Manager of the Information Worker Division claims "the ODF format, however, is limited to the features of OpenOffice and StarOffice and would not satisfy most of our Microsoft Office customers today."
But Sam Hiser, Vice President and Director of Business Affairs at the OpenDocument Foundation, says "Microsoft is about 2 years behind ODF in its implementation of XML."
Microsoft's attempt to repackage the proprietary Word document format with XML trimmings has so far seen a cold reception in the marketplace. As John McCreesh, OpenOffice.org' Marketing Project Lead says, "The market told OpenOffice.org it needed a standard - the last thing it wants is two."
Competing standards have already wrecked havoc in the graphics field where competing SVG formats, one open source and one from Adobe, have left the marketplace with no complete implementations of Abode's SVG standard outside of Adobe Illustrator.
As McCreesh points out, "public administrations and regulated businesses were worried about meeting Freedom of Information requirements if documents were stored in a long-extinct proprietary data format."
The existence of two standards means double the work for Microsoft's competitors. Raju Vegesna of Zoho.com, a popular online office suite, says, "While we support standards, we also have to look at practicality." With Microsoft pushing OpenXML as a standard, Vegesna says Zoho will "have to support both formats and will do it going forward." At the same time, like most vendors, Zoho would prefer ODF, "if we were to choose a format, we will pick ODF" says Vegesna.
Novell, another office suite vendor, has announced that its version of OpenOffice.org will support Microsoft’s proprietary document format. Novell also plans to release the code to the open source community so that all versions of OpenOffice.org could support the MS format if they want.
OpenOffice.org's McCreesh says, "Novell have an excellent track record for feeding their enhancements to OpenOffice.org back to the community for the benefit of all users." He goes one to add that, "OpenOffice.org already supports a plethora of Microsoft proprietary file formats so adding one more for OpenXML would be no big deal."
In the end the marketplace may be the deciding factor. Hiser says "If one day we have two ISO standards that do roughly the same things, then the marketplace will decide between basically a very expensive solution set where most of the costs are hidden and a relatively inexpensive set which will have much more confidence associated with users' access."
***these numbers come from an ITwire article which I can't verify yet, but I'm looking into it.
Massachusetts's state officials have said the decision to go with ODF was based in part on a cost analysis that put Office 2007 upgrades at four times the price of an Open Office solution.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Quotes>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Zoho:
Yes, we do plan to support both formats. While we support standards, we also have to look at practicality right? Microsoft has more than 80% (90%?) of the Office market share and they will push Microsoft OpenXML Doc format to be the standard. We will have to support both formats and will do it going forward. If we were to choose a format, we will pick ODF, but we will (have to) support both.
MS:
>>>>>>>> We support giving our customers more choice. The promise of XML
based formats as the ideal technology for data interoperability and
archiving is a vision we share with the proponents of the OpenDocument
Format (ODF). The ODF format, however, is limited to the features of
OpenOffice and StarOffice and would not satisfy most of our Microsoft
Office customers today. Yet, we do support interoperability with ODF
through the Open XML-ODF Translator project and did not oppose its
standardization or use by any organization. The richness of competitive
choices in the market is good for our customers and for the industry as
a whole.
Sam Hiser:
http://samhiser.blogspot.com/2005/12/ecma-rubber-stamps-ms-xml-proposal.html
I wrote this over a YEAR ago. Surprisingly, it's still germane.
The Ecma vote last week was expected and indicative of an ossified
coin-operated standards organization. A travesty of common sense, but one we
shrug off as par for the course.
Just having this discussion reflects the increased level of competition.
Microsoft's legacy formats give them a great ramp into whatever next thing
they are selling. Even if it's herring.
Any reasonable man on the street who reads the 6,000 page Ecma specification
would HAVE TO CONCLUDE that Microsoft has dumped their existing format
design into a just-add-water standards process. They were surprised and are
pretending to satisfy customer requirements (Massachusetts & EU). There's an
old Sicilian expression: Watch the hand, not the mouth.
Do you think OpenXML has a realistic chance at ISO approval? If it
does get approval do you think Microsoft's power in the industry will
allow it to position OpenXML as an alternative to ODF inspite of the
proprietary aspects of OpenXML?
>>>>>>>>John McCreesh
OpenOffice.org started down the road to open-standard file formats in
response to market pressure. For example, public administrations and
regulated businesses were worried about meeting Freedon of Information
requirements if documents were stored in a long-extinct proprietary data
format. To meet these market demands, OpenOffice.org believes:
* a specification must be owned and maintained by a recognised standards
body which is truly vendor neutral
* a specification must be capable of being adopted by any software vendor
without restrictions
* contributors must issue an irrevocable covenant not to enforce any of
their patents against any implementation of the specification
With these requirements in mind, OpenOffice.org helped steer the
OpenDocument Format first through OASIS and then to the OSI - the most
respected standards body - for ratification. OpenOffice.org software now
supports OpenDocument / ISO 26300 as its native file format.
OpenOffice.org encourages everyone (including Microsoft) to rally to this
standard. Naturally, OpenOffice.org was disappointed to see Microsoft
trying to play "me-too" with OpenXML (can we finally kill off the old
allegation that open-source projects are not innovators?). However,
OpenXML fails to pass the tests of being multi-vendor and free of
intellectual property encumbrances. Microsoft is a company with enormous
powers of influence, but it would be a sad day for users of office
software if this extended to persuading ISO to ratify a competing
'standard'. The market told OpenOffice.org it needed a standard - the last
thing it wants is two.
Novell has said they'll be adding OpenXML support to their version of
OO, does the main OO community have any plans to roll that code into
the OO.org version or are you opposed to multiple document formats?
(or would the MS licensing terms be a problem?)
Novell have an excellent track record for feeding their enhancements to
OpenOffice.org back to the community for the benefit of all users.
OpenOffice.org already supports a plethora of Microsoft proprietary file
formats so adding one more for OpenXML would be no big deal.
If ISO members define the purpose of MS Office Open XML as being different
than ODF, there's quite a good chance it will pass -- though you have to get
by that fastidious Japanese ISO team.
If it passes, MS Office OpenXML would get added to the procurement menus in
government. It would therefore be harder for CIOs to keep Vista and Office
2007 out of their agencies; although the cost of a full stack of eight
different Microsoft products, all of which are needed to get full XML
capabilities, would make the same CIO faint.
IT acquisition executives will need to earn their pay and make an educated
choice. Microsoft is about 2 years behind ODF in its implementation of XML.
Total cost will matter. ODF remains a hard-sell, but where were we a year
ago...no one had heard of us. I expect us to continue to outperform
expectations. There's no denying common sense.
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office-screen-1.jpg
The Ribbon interface in Microsoft Word. Each Ribbon element has a small icon in the corner, clicking the icon will bring up the old-style dialog box, hovering on the element shows the dialog box and, when applicaple, provides links to the relevant help page.
office-screen-2.jpg
Ribbon interface in hidden mode. Moving the mouse over any of the tabs will reveal the ribbon, but when you don't need it it stays out of the way providing the cleanest workspace of any office version yet. The top menu can be customized to hold all your frequent items.
office-screen-3.jpg
In this shot the document has a default style applied, but I've selected the first sentence and moused over the title style so that the selected text automatically shows a preview without having to apply it. Clicking the style will apply it, mousing off will leave it as it was.
office-screen-4.jpg
This is Word in the "blogging mode." The Ribbon elements are contextual, in this case because a picture is selected the picture tools become available. Deselecting the picture would cause those tool to hide themselves. As you might imagine the HTML output of blogging mode is somewhat bloated with inline styles, but on the brighter side the output of this simple example was at least HTML 4.0 compliant.
office-screen-5.jpg
Excel got a serious makeover as well, this shot shows the new conditional formatting tools and as with the previews in word, hovering over a format style give you a preview without having to commit to it. The blue bars on the sample graph are deing applied by the conditional coramt rule that the mouse is hovering over.
office-screen-6.jpg
Another new Excel feature, the top half shows the table header as it looks when opened, in the bottom section you can see that as you scroll down the header jumps into the cell header so you can keep track of your columns.
office-screen-7.jpg
Outlook doesn't have the Ribbon bar in the explorer pane, though it is used when composing new messages. New Outlook features include a live preview for other office documents which means you can read Word Excel and other files inline rather than having to open them separately. Also note the To-Do bar, in this case showing the calendar view.
office-screen-8.jpg
Outlook also has an improved calendar view which includes an overlay feature. Multiple calendars can be viewed on top of each other which makes it easy to see where schedules overlap and conflict.
office-screen-9.jpg
Powerpoint uses Ribbon and sports a number of new themes to keep Al Gore busy. As with the rest of the Ribbon apps there are live previews of formatting changes.
Outlook in three pane mode
Outlook calendar overlay
One Note
WORD
What is the official status of PDF support in Word?
We worked with Adobe and decided
OUTLOOK:
Why didn't outlook get the ribbon interface?
Outlook is a very different beast, it's more of an explorere that helps you get to your information. The menus weren't under the same constraints and there wasn't the "ui" crunch
Outlook's
The explorer view doesn't use a ribbon but most of the document creation tools do, for instance creating a new email will give you a window with a ribbon.
Inline previewer spec has been published so
It comes full circle you blog in word and consume in Outlook.
GENERAL:
Why did you drop outlook from the student teacher edition?
The home and student audience tends to use web-based email so we opted for onenone over outlook
The office offering "calenders can be published on the web, we feel that al lot of the editting and rich tasks, the client side experience is still the best for our users
Groove is a way for people working a project to collaberate
We tried hard to do as much integration as possible
the search integration in outlook is superior when used in vista
vista explorer will show document text in the preview pane.
very similar.
What percentage of MS revenue is from Office?
what are microsoft's goals with Office 2007?
Unlocking the power of the user interface and helping users create professional looking content.
What are you calling the "toolbar"?
Paul Coleman, Senior Marketing Manager.
Ribbon represents
we felt that windows and toolbars were no longer working for us. Office 2003 has 1500 features and we sort of ran out of space to add new features
2003 left users in an impossible situation for trying to discover new features.
9 out of 10 feature requests we got were already in the product, people just couldn't find them.
we wanted something that was browseable the ribbon has tabs composed of groups and inside each group is a set of commands
Live preview
500 million users office
Excel has a new page layout view that
many of the dialogue features have been changed to be more graphical as opposed to answering questions
All the office 2003 keyboard shortcuts still work, but there's a new feature called keytips
help content has ben integrated into tooltips, often with sample graphics and direct link to help entries
We did some studies that showed that the number of features core was 23 for 2003 and whith the new ribbon interface that number has climbed to 60 or 70.
There a collapsed ribbon mode view hides the subpanes
Word: Blogging features puts word in special bloggin mode
word supports most popular blogging tools
contextual spell check
23 60 and 70 core features
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The Office franchise is Microsoft's second-biggest cash cow behind Window and with the increasing popularity of open source alternatives to Office and growing web-based office tools, Microsoft has a lot riding on both of these releases.
Office 2007 introduces a new default document format (OOXML story link) and features a radically overhauled interface dubbed Ribbon. Ribbon replaces the toolbar menu features of previous versions with tabbed window bar that provides easier access to features that used to hide in a labyrinth of submenus.
Paul Coleman, Senior Marketing Manager says one of the goals for Office 2007 was "unlocking the power of the user interface and helping users create professional looking content." He goes on to add that "9 out of 10 feature requests we got for 2007 were already in the 2003 product, people just couldn't find them."
Office 2003 had 1500 items buried in menus, "we sort of ran out of space to add new features," Coleman notes.
Ribbon will likely introduce many users to previously buried features they might never have found. Some might argue that Ribbon isn't all that different from the style pallets that existed in previous version of Office, but the old pallets were mainly limited to styling tools whereas Ribbon exposes nearly every menu feature.
Coleman says that usability studies "showed that average user of Office 2003 regularly accesses about 23 core features, but with the new Ribbon interface that number has climbed to 60 or 70."
The old style question and answer dialogues still exist for power users, but casual and non-technical users will likely welcome the more visual, icon-oriented tools.
###Word
Probably the best known of the many applications that comprise the Office suite, Word 2007 has a number of significant enhancements. The Ribbon toolbar, though it takes some getting used to, really does make it easier to access frequently used tools. Ribbon also provides some nice enhancements to existing tool such as style previews. When you select text and hover your mouse over a style setting, Word 2007 does a live preview of what the changes will look like when you apply them.
Highlights of Words new features include a document comparison tool that divides the Word window into a three pane workspace and lets you see differences between documents, and a new blogging mode which can connect to most popular blog hosting services.
##Outlook
After Word the next most used program in Office is undoubtedly Outlook, which has also received a massive overhaul. Outlook's main interface doesn't utilize Ribbon, as Coleman says, "Outlook is more of a 'explorer' that helps you get to your information, there wasn't the UI crunch that exists in other programs."
Still Outlook 2007 does use ribbon in compose mode and other viewing modes where menu options exist. New features in Outlook include a new To-Do panel, and RSS reader and auto account set up. The To-Do replaces and improves upon what was called "daily view" in previous versions, and data in the new To-Do panel is fully editable. The RSS reader in Outlook uses the same back-end data as the Internet Explorer RSS reader which means the two will always be in sync.
The auto account set-up is a much-touted attempt to auto-magically configure your Exchange Server, IMAP, or POP3 email accounts when you enter your user name and password. As you might expect it works best with Exchange accounts, but it was also able to auto configure my GMail account. However it failed to discover my IMAP info, but for those cases where it doesn't work, it's easy to slip into advanced mode and fill in the information yourself.
##conclusion
We tested Office on both Windows XP and the new Vista and found that it performed well on both versions of Windows. Using Vista with Aero Glass enabled, the Office apps get a glassy, shiny look, and the Vista Explorer will show Office document text in the preview pane, but for the most part there's no need to upgrade your system to take advantage of the new Office interface.
Oh yeah and the best reason to upgrade -- that stupid paperclip is gone.
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Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 was announced yesterday at Macworld and will include new versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage. The new version will be a universal binary, supporting both new Intel-based Macs and older legacy machines and will feature full support for Microsoft's new Open Office XML file format.
***Quote about Converters***
Mac BU officials at Macworld also announced plans to release file format converters that will allow the current version of Office of Mac 2004 to open, edit and save files created using the Open Office XML format.
Beta versions of the file format converters will arrive in Spring while the final versions are expected to ship six to eight weeks after Office for Mac 2008 makes its debut in the second half of the year.
Like it's Windows sibling, the new Office for Mac 2008 introduces an overhaul to the user interface; the two programs share a new graphics engine called Office Art 2.0. Microsoft says the shared graphics engine will help the new Office for Mac suite provide pixel-for-pixel compatibility with Windows Office documents.
However instead of using the new Window's UI, dubbed Ribbon, Office for Mac will feature what Microsoft calls Elements Gallery, a new taskbar designed to improve usability while retaining a Mac look and feel. So, while the two programs share features and graphics engines the user interface design remains unique to the respective platform.
***Quote about the new UI would be good here***
Office for Mac 2008 promises Mac-first, Mac-only features like a Publishing Layout View for layout-rich documents like newsletters, Ledger Sheets, a tool to make working with Excel spreadsheets easier, and My Day, a stand-alone application that offers schedule and task viewing without launching Entourage.
Elements Gallery automates common, complex tasks such as adding a table of contents or headers and footers. Elements Gallery also provides easy access to a another new feature called Document Parts which are templates that support themes and styles.
Many of the new features, Publishing Layout View and Ledger Sheets especially, add more layout tools to Office for Mac 2008 than previous versions and mirror similar features in Apple's own iWork software. Although Apple has never represented the iWork suite as an alternative to Office for Mac, many see iWork as a potential competitor to Office for Mac.
The Mac BU team denies that the two software packages are competing,
*** A quote about iWork would be nice here, here's one from Microsoft's Sheridan Jones via ZDnet:
"We think that iWork represents an interesting solution for some customers," Jones said. "We have a different customer set and we have a very robust productivity suite. iWork is interesting for people who don't need as robust a set of capabilities."
So far Microsoft has not announced prices for the new Office for Mac 2008. The current version, Microsoft Office for Mac 2004, is $399, and $149 for the Student and Teacher edition.
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Eric Wilfrid Product Unit Manager for Mac Business Unit
The elsements gallery in the heart of the new UI. It helps serface features and it's a great way for us to present some new mac-only features.
Elements gallery fits in with older 2004 formats, we still have the formatting pallettes
Can you describe elements gallery? it's like a taskbar... does that replace some of the functionality that is in the pallets on office 2004?
Is it still mac like?
The new "mac only" features seem heavily geared toward more layout and graphic design tasks is that a response to iWork (which is less a word processor and more of a page layout program)?
There's need there to let mac users create stunning documents
customers who want to get going quickly are going to find the new
How does microsoft see Office for Mac fitting in with apple's iWork suite?
We love competition it's get for the market. One big difference between iWork and Office 2008 is compatibility, we natively support the same file formats as Windows users and our customers are looking for that cross platform support. iWork is a good sulotion for customer who need a limited set of functionality but office goes quite bit beyond,.
I haven't seen any pricing announcements...
Can you explain the reasoning behind My Day? Does it integrate with address book or iCal?
The ledger sheets are excel templates...?
Can you outline any specific enhancements to Entourage?
there's system wide short cut to launch My Days control space... you can do simple manipulations, prioritize tasks amd more with out distracting yourself from what you're working on.
Leopard reportedly features OOXML compatibility, why is it taking so long to get the converters into MS's own products?
Which versions of Office for Mac will have converters? 2004? v.X?
beta 2004. We are also doing converts for office v.X and
Office apps are increasingly moving toward online collaboration and storage... does the new Office 2008 have any sharing features? Does the Mac BU have any plans to add such features in the future?
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206-268-2287
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