Julie Larson-Green - Diving into the new Office 12

Posted By: scobleizer | Sep 13th, 2005 @ 11:55 AM | 378,255 Views | 84 Comments
At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated Office 12 in public for the first time. The news you'll hear is "they changed the user interface." So, we wanted to talk with the team who came up with this new UI and we wanted to ask them "are you nuts?" After all, changing how Office works is not done lightly. Julie runs the team that did the research that led to the came up with and designed the new Office 12 user interface. She gives us a great runthrough of what Office 12 does. Hope you enjoy meeting Julie and your first look at Office 12 the same way I did. You can't see it, but behind the camera I was just amazed at what I was seeing.
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#Sep 13th, 2005 @ 12:28 PM
AthemeX
AthemeX
Here since the beginning
Man, this new UI looks really cool. I love it Tongue Out
#Sep 13th, 2005 @ 12:34 PM
Andre Da Costa
Andre Da Costa
Created with PhotoDraw 2000 V2
It is just radically cool, I can't wait to use Office 12. I love the new Access too, its taking advantage of the Outlook 2003 view.
#Sep 13th, 2005 @ 12:53 PM
rjdohnert
rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure
What are the system requirements going to be.  I have already guessed no Windows 2000 support but will this support ClearType fonts and such?
#Sep 13th, 2005 @ 12:56 PM
Jeremy W
Jeremy W
that blogging guy
rjdohnert wrote:
What are the system requirements going to be.  I have already guessed no Windows 2000 support but will this support ClearType fonts and such?


It works just fine on "current" hardware, including tablets and such (which aren't known for being "beefy"). The software that will be handed out is NOT optimized for speed (or stability), though, so ignore anyone who complains about performance and crashing. It's simply not at that point.

But, if you have a system with 256MB or RAM or better, and a better than 1.8GHz processor,  you should be fine.
#Sep 13th, 2005 @ 2:55 PM
rjdohnert
rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure
Looks like its back to the old drawing board for the OpenOffice.org team, they cant possibly hope to stand up to Office 12
#Sep 13th, 2005 @ 3:50 PM
dotnetjunkie
dotnetjunkie
JoshRountree wrote:

WOW!


You can say that again Big Smile

Openoffice (or any other competitor) is dead and burried now!

This exceeds every expectation I had.
Just AMAZING.
#Sep 13th, 2005 @ 3:53 PM
Fritzly
Fritzly
Great video thanks. Few quick questions: I heard Beta 1 will be on MSDN Universal; can you confirm it? Will SBA (2007?) be updated to the new UI too?
TIA
Fritzly
#Sep 13th, 2005 @ 4:00 PM
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
Wow! I'm floored. We've been hearing so much about MS Research -- it's about time that we see the research goes into an actual product. Finally a program that me AND my father can use. It seems THAT intuitive. Congrats Office team.

Just out curiousity -- Office must be a huge cash cow, only behind Windows. What was the politics like in preparing for such a huge change as O12?

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