Microsoft Office 2013

[elvis]

Originally Posted by HyRax1

You must be one of the 1% of people that actually use those extra features.

Add to that the fact that half those features are useless
* sharing - we've been doing that for years without Office
* mail rules - I was using procmail in 1990
* Access - anyone who uses this needs to be shot. I've spent more time in my career replacing siloed Access files with proper database systems than I care to mention.
* One note - seriously?

Word, Excel, Powerpoint. They're the valuable apps there. (And even then, 80% of users still only manage 20% of the features at best).

[darkanjel]

Originally Posted by elvis

Add to that the fact that half those features are useless
* sharing - we've been doing that for years without Office
* mail rules - I was using procmail in 1990
* Access - anyone who uses this needs to be shot. I've spent more time in my career replacing siloed Access files with proper database systems than I care to mention.
* One note - seriously?

Word, Excel, Powerpoint. They're the valuable apps there. (And even then, 80% of users still only manage 20% of the features at best).

So just to be clear, your points are:

• everyone has been sharing calendars with automatic free/busy look ups with contacts for years
• everyone has been able to configure complex mail rules via procmail
• everyone shouldn't design small-scale databases that don't require infrastructure
• a virtual notes organiser should be mocked for reasons that everyone knows

You're clearly bitter and this isn't really a discussion so why are we playing this?

[MR CHILLED]

Our office is switching over from Office 2003/Windows XP to Office 2007/Windows 7.....going to be a very interesting day this coming monday

[maryusdemetry]

Template previews and screen clipping are in Office 2010, I use them often. Seems like most of the changes are refinements to the look, feel and usability. It's almost like the reviewer never used Office 2010. I do like the PDF editing, SkyDrive integration and outlook improvements.

[MR CHILLED]

Bah....the dreaded ribbon. I'm disliking it even more now I'm forced to use it : (

[maryusdemetry]

I really do hope we get the option back to change the colour scheme as this new white metro look is awful.

[MR CHILLED]

Originally Posted by maryusdemetry

I really do hope we get the option back to change the colour scheme as this new white metro look is awful.

I just dont think this new scheme is going to be all that popular. Back to play school we go!

[elvis]

Office for ARM will lack features, report claims
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08..._arm_stripped/

Among the items to be pruned from the version of Office for ARM-based Windows RT will be macros, third-party add-ons, and support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

I can't say I'm miffed. All of those features are terrible, and cause non-stop headaches for businesses that thought it was a good idea to implement them.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by maryusdemetry

I really do hope we get the option back to change the colour scheme as this new white metro look is awful.

A white background is not good for your vision or productivity anyway. I suppose they just threw the ergonomics book out the window on this one.

Besides Elvis not being miffed, I'm just not surprised. Something has to be cut for that anemic platform.

[Parker Pete]

I spoke to Msoft about this app some guy on the phone said you have to be online 100% to use it , I said mobile broadband isnt cheap in this country and his response was yeah we know that we all laugh at you move somewhere to get better broadband

[elvis]

Originally Posted by MR CHILLED

Our office is switching over from Office 2003/Windows XP to Office 2007/Windows 7.....going to be a very interesting day this coming monday

I'd love to hear your experiences on this (perhaps in another thread over in the business forums?). I've done the Office upgrade twice in the past, and both times were awfully received by end users (despite a lot of money being poured into communication and training prior to the move).

I'd be curious to see if much has changed now that people are more accepting of interface changes in a post-tablet/phone world.

Originally Posted by Parker Pete

I spoke to Msoft about this app some guy on the phone said you have to be online 100% to use it , I said mobile broadband isnt cheap in this country and his response was yeah we know that we all laugh at you move somewhere to get better broadband

Wait... someone from Microsoft said that to you? Or was it just a reseller? Were they Australian?

[the scotsman]

Originally Posted by Parker Pete

I spoke to Msoft about this app some guy on the phone said you have to be online 100% to use it

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[The Mafia]

I wonder if Star Office will come out on the ARM architecture.

I think that it is safe to assume it will.

[elvis]

Originally Posted by The Mafia

I wonder if Star Office will come out on the ARM architecture.

I think that it is safe to assume it will.

OpenOffice is the open source version of Star Office, and is already on ARM.

[NSanity]

Originally Posted by MR CHILLED

Our office is switching over from Office 2003/Windows XP to Office 2007/Windows 7.....going to be a very interesting day this coming monday

What stupid bullshit macros and add-ins do you have that is stopping you from going to Office 2010?

2007, like Vista, is an unpolished but necessary step we had to go through to get to 2010/7. There is *no* reason outside of 3rd party add-ins that you should be going to 2007 over 2010 at this point.