Office 2007 Beta

[Jason_Bryan]

As someone who uses a computer for document creation I downloaded Office 2007 Beta to see what was on offer. I am really not keen on Windows XP theme, the new IE7 interface, and was expecting the same from Office 2007. However I have to say I was so impressed with the new interface and the ease of use, I have purchased Parallels and installed Windows XP on my new Macbook for the sole reason of working in Word 2007.

 

[Bradley W]

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[WorldIRC123]

It's quite a change seeing as there have been no siginificant interface changes since ...well atleast Word 2.0 for Windows 3.1

 

[X5-452]

I watched the promo vid for Word 2007 on the MS site and I must say I'm impressed. Are they going to release Office 2007 for the Mac as a universal app?

 

[5683565]

The next version, whatever the name, will be UB. They have said that.

 

[bbrosemer]

Office 2007 UB better come out soon becasue M$ is really bothering me with this delay.

 

[Nermal]

I don't know whether anyone on here knows, but it's worth asking anyway...

To beta test a Mac BU product, do you go through the regular Microsoft Beta system, or is there a specific Mac BU system?

 

[MRU]

Funny thing is Office 2007 wouldnt install for me in VISTA

 

[JFreak]

Funny thing is Office 2007 wouldnt install for me in VISTA

Oh my God, are you serious? That's something.

 

[heaven]

My friend hat office 2007 running on his laptop. I liked the new interface

 

[MRU]

Oh my God, are you serious? That's something.

Fraid so, deadly serious... I know VISTA is BETA, but FFS

 

[crazycat]

Officer 2007 is what i expected from apple, i have to say that the officer team at microsoft did an amazing job and i cant wait to get my hands on it.

 

[MGLXP]

Fraid so, deadly serious... I know VISTA is BETA, but FFS

I don't know what happened with your installation, but when I installed Windows Vista Beta 2 on my Macbook Pro, Office 2007 installed properly and worked properly.

 

[Philberttheduck]

I wonder why apple doesn't create their alternative to MS, yet come out with newsletter-software crap? I mean, if this thing was pre-setted in the format that teachers and professors accept, I wouldn't argue. But pages is just nothing but an editorial/newspaper-letter thing. I thought Apple was about the students as well? It's annoying because, while the icons for the Mac are so much cooler than Windoze, I want a MAC created one!

Until then, UB PLEASE!!

 

[linkboy]

I installed it last night and while taking a while to get used to, I like it.

Still can't pull me away from Openoffice though.

 

[EricNau]

Beware of the different file formats; they aren't backwards compatible with past versions.

 

[APPLENEWBIE]

Pages

I wonder why apple doesn't create their alternative to MS, yet come out with newsletter-software crap? I mean, if this thing was pre-setted in the format that teachers and professors accept, I wouldn't argue. But pages is just nothing but an editorial/newspaper-letter thing. I thought Apple was about the students as well? It's annoying because, while the icons for the Mac are so much cooler than Windoze, I want a MAC created one!


I agree. I use Word daily. bought Pages and find it... inscrutable. Would it be too much to give users an option to set it up so that it at least resembles the worlds most popular word processor... I wanted to like it... but couldn't.