Office UI - New Licensing Story | Rory

Cyonix
Me

If you really want to make this a standard like the menu bar & toolbar you should release an add-on to Visual Studio (perhaps sign licence agreement before download) that adds these controls.

Please make it part of the standard set of controls Smiley

jmazner

I can assure you that the Visual Studio team is thinking about how and when to do this...but it never hurts for them to have more customer input to guide their decisions. In the meantime, we do have a set of component vendors who have already signed up to build Office 2007 UI controls. From the bottom of http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/nov06/11-21officeui.mspx (this includes some ISVs as well):

Office UI Licensing Partners

•	90Degree Software
•	Attachmate
•	Falafel Software, Inc.
•	DevComponents LLC
•	Developer Express
•	ILOG, Inc.
•	Infragistics, Inc.
•	Syncfusion Inc.
•	Telerik Corp.
•	Xceed
•	Objective Computing
•	ABB
•	MindJet
•	Serena Software
•	DivElements

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

Nice job folks. That makes a lot of sense to me. I agree with Cyonix however. MS needs common ribbon control in VS. Don't want to wait 2 years for 3rd party and pay another 600 for it. That would seem to be the easiest way to get standards going as I assume your own controls would comply. That said, I also assume you are working on just that.

Wells

Good interview. Nice camera work Rory.

And it would seem that OpenOffice can't use the ribbon interface. I have nothing against OO but it makes me feel good that they can't just rip off the interface like with previous versions.

JChung2006

Where is the guidelines document mentioned in the video?

Edit: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx -- coming soon...

Detroit Muscle
Wii!

Wells wrote:
Good interview. Nice camera work Rory.

And it would seem that OpenOffice can't use the ribbon interface. I have nothing against OO but it makes me feel good that they can't just rip off the interface like with previous versions.

Not using the ribbon UI is one of the major selling points of OpenOffice right now.

Cyonix
Me

Detroit Muscle wrote:

Wells wrote: Good interview. Nice camera work Rory.

And it would seem that OpenOffice can't use the ribbon interface. I have nothing against OO but it makes me feel good that they can't just rip off the interface like with previous versions.

Not using the ribbon UI is one of the major selling points of OpenOffice right now.

Have you actually used office 2007?

Everyone i have shown loves how much easier the interface is to use, and that's from my technical friends to my mum....

Perhaps you could outline the problems with it so as to provide some feedback for the office team.

CGH

Hi guys. I was 'number 35' to view, but I hopped into bed [to sleep!] before viewing the whole thing [I live in Glasgow, Scotland and its now 06:00 [AM GMT] and another 800 folk have viewed already!

Great to see Jensen, having had your RSS feed in my Outlook 2007 Beta for the past few months.

Looking forward to my full production version of O2K7.

Ciao

Chas

josephs2877

Interesting!!!!

I'm curious to know if the royalty-free license will extend once the ribbon UI is implemented across other Microsoft products (e.g, Dynamics). It makes sense to protect the Office competition, but if I put the ribbon in a CRM product will I lose the license if it competes with another Microsoft product with the ribbon in it?