BrokenDesign
Shared on Thu, 08/02/2007 - 09:10Came across a news story this morning announcing the delay of Office 2008 for Mac to January 2008, presumably around the date of MacWorld San Francisco. With this news story were some images posted of the Mac version which, oddly enough, I haven't been able to find up until now even though they've been around since MacWorld San Francisco '07, which happened way back in January.
But I digress.
I am pleased to announce that the Mac version looks infinitely better than the PC version that has that dull and heavy deep blue to it in Windows XP. According to Wikipedia shots, when it's installed in Vista it looks a great deal better, so I'm wondering if that's some sort of trickery incentive to upgrade to Vista....? Who knows. All I know is that the blue in XP is SO. EFFING. UGLY.
The UI of Office has changed quite a bit in 2008 for Mac as well. The ribbon appears to still be there, but almost more at a fundamental level, options are flipped all around, there's a floating pallet, returning from Office 04 for Mac. For any people coming over to Mac from PC it looks like there may be a fairly steep learning curve, but the same was probably true for Office 2004. I never used the previous versions of Office for Windows so I'm certainly not he authority. :-) I'm just looking forward to making the whole 'New', ' Open', 'Save', et al go away, leaving only stuff that's useful, taking up far less space and having good functionality. Definitely an improvement over Office 04 and should be worth the wait. Not sure if I'll get it though, I don't much word process. Maybe I can convince some college student to get it for me, they get it for frickin' $7 at major universities. Only get it in a sleeve, though, no box or anything, but that's ok because I hate the packaging that has been used for Windows and Office for awhile now. Huge, not all that attractive and it's a pain in the ASS to stock. >.<
But I digress.
I am pleased to announce that the Mac version looks infinitely better than the PC version that has that dull and heavy deep blue to it in Windows XP. According to Wikipedia shots, when it's installed in Vista it looks a great deal better, so I'm wondering if that's some sort of trickery incentive to upgrade to Vista....? Who knows. All I know is that the blue in XP is SO. EFFING. UGLY.
The UI of Office has changed quite a bit in 2008 for Mac as well. The ribbon appears to still be there, but almost more at a fundamental level, options are flipped all around, there's a floating pallet, returning from Office 04 for Mac. For any people coming over to Mac from PC it looks like there may be a fairly steep learning curve, but the same was probably true for Office 2004. I never used the previous versions of Office for Windows so I'm certainly not he authority. :-) I'm just looking forward to making the whole 'New', ' Open', 'Save', et al go away, leaving only stuff that's useful, taking up far less space and having good functionality. Definitely an improvement over Office 04 and should be worth the wait. Not sure if I'll get it though, I don't much word process. Maybe I can convince some college student to get it for me, they get it for frickin' $7 at major universities. Only get it in a sleeve, though, no box or anything, but that's ok because I hate the packaging that has been used for Windows and Office for awhile now. Huge, not all that attractive and it's a pain in the ASS to stock. >.<
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