Leaked: First Office 14 "Real" Screenshots

Leaked: First Office 14 "Real" Screenshots
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#1 Liskiller

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 06:55 AM

Mary-Jo Foley told that earlier this week, testers received alpha builds of Office 14, the codename for the successor to Office 2007. Now a tester from Russian site wzor.net has leaked the screenshots of the applications included in the productivity suite.

While he didn't screenshot every application individually, we do now know that the list includes:
Access 14
Excel 14
Groove 14
InfoPath Designer 14
InfoPath Filler 14
InterConnect 14
OneNote 14
Outlook 14
PowerPoint 14
Project 14
Publisher 14
SharePoint Designer 14
Visio 14
Word 14

List of Office 14 applications

Office 14 About page

Word 14 Give Feedback tab

Word 14

Excel 14

Publisher 14

Access 14

Visio 14

SharePoint Designer 14 obscured by Outlook 14

According to Arstechnica, the Beta of Office 14 will start in May, and the final version is slated for the end of the year. The alpha is reportedly running with good stability, all things considered. Redmond is expected to provide official release details for Office 14 next quarter.

#2 Vaer0

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 09:53 AM

looks ugly so far lol

#3 M.Sudoku

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 10:33 AM

I think these look very usable so far. Those fake screenshots posted a few days ago were ugly!

#4 something

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 11:42 AM

this certainly looks better than the other screenshots.
however the color does not match windows seven or live.
i think they should let windows live get the colour and user interface right.
if you have a look closely windows seven has been influenced by live and vice-versa
it should keep the icons though, they look nice

#5 FalseAgent

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 11:53 AM

besides the ribbon changing to the newer "scenic" one, what else?

any changelog? lol

#6 Bogo

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 12:52 PM

Looks good but out of place.

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 01:12 PM

Liskiller, on Jan 16 2009, 03:55 AM, said:

end of the year??? ... that a lot

it looks great ... now ribbon is fully used on all programs... visio, publisher, etc

bye

#8 Abhi

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 01:13 PM

It's Alpha.
For goodness sake, Leave it Alone!!!

#9 zilexa

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 01:46 PM

Screenshots are just like Office 2007 but with a windows7 skin.
I'm still using 2003, never missed a thing.

#10 Abhi

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 01:58 PM

zilexa, on Jan 16 2009, 07:16 PM, said:

Screenshots are just like Office 2007 but with a windows7 skin.

alpha...Alpha...ALPHA BUILD!!!

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I'm still using 2003, never missed a thing.

Good for you then.
By the way, did you try Office 2007, or you know just like that, you're not missing a thing?

#11 uch_haiden

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 03:45 PM

It definitely looks GOOD.

BUT

I don't know if it's good or not (as a whole), still sticking to 2003.

Who needs another $400+ dollars again to upgrade to a new version if nothing is really improved from the tools we use. Many people want the latest but 95% of them do not actually use the product in all its capabilities. Honestly, 95% of users don't even use all of Word 97's capabilities.

2003 to 14, yes for the new UI. But I'm sure Microsoft will be hard up on marketing 14 for the 2007 users.

For us (me) we (I) will upgrade if
1. The table bugs are fixed (ever since Word was released). Evident on drawing tables, the width will sometimes be larger than the width of the underlying (basis) table.
2. The footnotes and end notes bugs are fixed (bug since 97 as far as I know). Numbers do no coincide, some footnotes will be shown 2 or more pages from where its supposed to be.
3. The equation will comply to the standard.
4. All the macros are compatible. We do have problems importing some 97/2000 macros in 2007.
5. Outlining bugs are fixed. (yeah since 97). Still present on 2007 with what we tested in the office.
6. True Reveal Codes. Actually they copied it after saying its not needed. Their implementation needs a lot of work (more) to be done.
7. Page divisions. WordPerfect / OpenOffice / WordPro had this feature for a long time.
8. And the list goes on but those are the things we need most.

Yeah, mostly in the academe. And unless those things above are fixed, Word is still not a TRUE Word Processor.

One thing they fixed in 2007.
Word is now TRUE WYSIWYG!

Excel and Powerpoint => I think they are the best in their areas. While Excel 97-2003 is enough for us, Powerpoint 2007 is really an upgrade to 2003. Looking forward for Powerpoint and Excel 14's new features.

This post has been edited by uch_haiden: 16 January 2009 - 03:50 PM