I just saw this from neowin.net.
It said Microsoft expect Office 2007 to be available to
OEM/Retail in early 2007.
It is not usual that the product name match its release year.
Microsoft usualy naming their product with year after.

The DESIGN of this application is the best affort by microsoft to optimize this product. Do you know that from a pool the first ten requested features for office 12 were features ALREADY present in office 2003? Strange uh? Of course for office and home user the open office suite is valuable but for advanced and professional the ms suite has something more to say.

Bye

I've got a beta version of Office 12. So what I've experienced is not the final product, at least i hope not. Overall, I'd give this beta a 7/10 score. The good points I've experienced are: Word is totally redesigned, with everything right there at your fingertips. Never had any problems with it, though it takes a little getting used to at first because it's all repositioned as compared to every previous version of Office. but once you get the hang of it, you wonder how you ever subsisted with the old one. Excel and Access come with new features as well, and i've enjoyed using them, though I'm not qualified to judge details as I only use them for basic tasks. So what I liked the most is the new templates and color scheme formatting
Now the downside: Outlook is impossible to use. It crashes as soon as I try to send or receive, import anything, etc.
Powerpoint, on the other hand, has some good and some bad qualities. It's great as far as advanced features, new layouts, effects, etc. But if you try to save the file in regular version format, it doesn't go very smoothly. a 30 or 40 slide presentation will take like 10 minutes while it goes through the thing and decides what to render as bitmap because earlier versions can't handle it. So if you haven't lost patience by then, you save the file and what was once a slim 5 MB file is now a whopping 200 MB. So: it's great if everyone else is using the same version as you, but if not, tough luck.
Overall I don't know how much i can judge the unacceptable parts of Office, considering that it IS a beta. I'll definitely spring for the full version once it's released.
One more thing: Built - in PDF creation, and XML format as well, make this an EXTREME improvement over Office 2003.

Looks good

Yeap .. Still very much in beta .. Dont know about th exact release date .. but assumptions are that it would come out between August / September / October .. besides the beta2 is gona come out or already out ..

As far as working on office is concerned .. i guess m gona have to wait till the final release ... because in the beta version the files you make .. or the files u open / modify and then save are saved in a completely different extension that isnt recognizable by office 2003 .. so well .. we'll just have to wait n see .. cause by default if office changes extensions .. people NOT having office 2007 will have problems opening the file ..

Regards
Dhanesh.

So it only works on Windows Vista? Darnit though guess that's rather expected.

Has anyone used OpenOffice here and how does it compare to Microsoft Office? I am going to work in a legal firm but if everyone else has to use OpenOffice that kinda defeats the purpose.

Are there any radically new features besides eyecandy? And yes it does kinda look like a Mac...Will its documents be backward compatible?

Intel chips going into Macs and programs like iTunes on PCs...now all is left are to include the Linux people!

This post has been edited by roggle: May 18 2006, 10:59 PM

wow that looks soo good!!! does it mean thats its in beta right now since u said at the end of the year?

Not Bad..

The pictures show a pretty neat picture of MicroSoft Office suite, but I am not sure I will even be using it. I might end up using it at my job, but at home, as I planning to shift to Linux, it will be mostly Open Office. The issue is, I have kind of lost trust with the stability achieved by Microsoft products.

Wow looks pretty neat. Dunno if i'll get it though, it's a lot of money to invest when I still have Microsoft Office 2000 which does the job anyway.

Still it does look pretty cool.