nice.
wonder what improvements over office 07 it'll have
wonder what improvements over office 07 it'll have
[FUD]Microsoft 'Office 14' to launch in early March 2010
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First closed beta this July Last month, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that CEO Steve Ballmer made a passing remark at an analysts' conference in New York claiming a 2010 launch for the company's upcoming 'Office 14' suite. We have been informed that there have been updates to Microsoft's 2010 Technical Adoption Program schedule, which now states that the final set launch of 'Office 14' RTM is scheduled for early March 2010. Before this occurs, however, the company plans to release its first closed and non-public beta this July for internal testing and other typical procedures. This will be followed by a second public beta version of the suite which will be broadly available in November. 
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isn't Windows, deep down, really just a very advanced version of Linux? Or am I thinking of something else?
Originally Posted by Royaltramp  Anyone else notice how Windows, and Microsoft software keeps looking more and more like Linux? -Matt |
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Nope. That would mean it running on a Unix style kernal which it really doesn't.
Originally Posted by mcnaryxc Umm...
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No. Linux is far more advanced than Windows in most ways. Windows is just commercially backed, so it has the market as far as gamers and enthusiasts are concerned.
-Matt
Originally Posted by mcnaryxc Umm...
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The .docx format is much better than the .doc format.
Originally Posted by arkheii I hope they don't introduce yet another file format that is incompatible with earlier Office versions. |
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Maybe for Microsoft, but really both are quite horrible.
Originally Posted by NrGx The .docx format is much better than the .doc format. |
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How is the .doc format horrible?
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The only thing I see different is they are internally compressed. Which makes it ar real bizatch because it shows through firewalls as .zip files and they get blocked
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Looks a crapload like it, but that's ok
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Originally Posted by timw4mail Maybe for Microsoft, but really both are quite horrible. |
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Originally Posted by NrGx The .docx format is much better than the .doc format. |
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Originally Posted by Royaltramp Anyone else notice how Windows, and Microsoft software keeps looking more and more like Linux? -Matt |
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My 1,445KB assignment is only 234KB as a .docx. The compression is much better.
Originally Posted by timw4mail Maybe for Microsoft, but really both are quite horrible. |
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Proprietary (binary?) format. Microsoft had a history of changing it out from underneath developers who tried to utilize it.
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.docx is all XML, it is wildly different from .doc. And because it is chock full of all those XML tags, it has to be compressed or it would be frickin huge.
Originally Posted by justarealguy How is the .doc format horrible? |
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The only thing I see different is they are internally compressed. Which makes it ar real bizatch because it shows through firewalls as .zip files and they get blocked |
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god i hope that's not all text!
OT: ill stick with 07 for the moment, just to see if its worth the fuss.
Originally Posted by NrGx My 1,445KB assignment is only 234KB as a .docx. The compression is much better. |
OT: ill stick with 07 for the moment, just to see if its worth the fuss.
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I see, thanks for explaining
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*clicks on the invisible rep button*
Originally Posted by VulcanDragon Proprietary (binary?) format. Microsoft had a history of changing it out from underneath developers who tried to utilize it. .docx is all XML, it is wildly different from .doc. And because it is chock full of all those XML tags, it has to be compressed or it would be frickin huge. |
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Agreed. I mean I will upgrade to office 2010 but I don't expect it to offer anything noticable over 2007 except using the ribbon in more applications.
Office 97-2003 are pretty much the same at least besides a few tweaks like autohiding menus and prettier icons and the (imo) useless sidebar startup task pane thingie. If it weren't for the ribbon I would be perfectly content still using Office 2000.
Originally Posted by VulcanDragon No thanks. We're just rolling out Office 2007 and training 900 people on it. Not about to go through it all again anytime soon, when Office 2007 is really an excellent product already. I know Microsoft needs to upgrade products to generate new revenue, but there is nothing that 99.999% of Office workers actually need to do isn't available in Office 2007 (hell, probably Office 2000 if you want to split hairs). |
Office 97-2003 are pretty much the same at least besides a few tweaks like autohiding menus and prettier icons and the (imo) useless sidebar startup task pane thingie. If it weren't for the ribbon I would be perfectly content still using Office 2000.
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