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| Time: 14:54 EST/19:54 GMT | News Source: WinInformant | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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A number of readers alerted me this week to a fascinating Shockwave animation that purports to demonstrate some of the online/subscription features of the next version of Microsoft Office, which will be called Office .NET. Code-named Office NGO ("Next Generation Office") in the animation, this Office version will include links to a number of of online services, including a secure My Office Web site; a consolidated email account with Web-based Inbox; Office .NET Notifications; online scheduling with a sharable calendar; Meeting Workspaces for viewing agendas, pending tasks, and related documents, SharePoint Team Services-based Team Workspace for sharing information with team members; and a set of online content such as templates, online training, communities, and the like. So is it real? Is Office NGO really a sneak-peak at Office .NET? It's hard to say, and though some UI inconsistencies have me thinking that this is an April Fools prank, I will say this: If it is fake, it's the most elaborate fake I've ever seen. Let's take a look. | ||
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| #1 By 1845 (12.254.230.230) at 4/5/2002 4:13:49 PM |
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So where might one find this shockwave animation?
#1 - that is quite entirely your opinion. I (and I imagine millions of others) have a different one. |
| #2 By 61 (65.32.169.133) at 4/5/2002 4:14:45 PM |
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ummm... have you ever been to research.microsoft.com?
They are doing LOTS of cool things. And to say that MS doesn't come up with any new technolgies shows your level of either a) stupidity, or b) zealot-like behavior (which in turn relates to stupidity anyway). Get a life. |
| #3 By 1845 (12.254.230.230) at 4/5/2002 4:56:14 PM |
| Once again, where is this Shockwave movie or screenshots? |
| #4 By 5444 (208.180.245.59) at 4/5/2002 6:00:01 PM |
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What collapsable side bar. which screen shot shows that.
About the only screen shot that looks sim to netscape 6 is the slide bar used on one of the screen shots of the web page. The one showing meeting workspace on my office.net. There is several of us that wonder if it is fake or not. But if is fake. someone went to alot of trouble to set it up. And we do know that is the direction that MS wants to go. Interesting though that all of web pages are default.html instead of asp or aspx though. El |
| #5 By 61 (65.32.169.133) at 4/5/2002 6:12:14 PM |
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Maybe YOU do not like the UI research there, or you are too stupid to admit you do, either way....
However, I can obviously tell you know nothing of UI, as you equate it to just being a pretty GUI, there is so much more, and there are UI's that are not a GUI. #10, do you know what innovate means? It does not mean coming up with new ideas, that's inventing. BTW, MS co-developed NT with IBM, with MS doing most of it. And like other people have said, just because it was bought technology doesn't mean there is nothing innovative about it. You anonymous people generally know absolutely nothing about what you speak, or you are just plain flat out bashers, I'm sick and tired of it, and people like you, and I'm sure others are as well.... it's time to move on and get rid of your zealotry attitude. This post was edited by CPUGuy on Friday, April 05, 2002 at 18:20. |
| #6 By 665 (64.126.91.172) at 4/5/2002 6:35:51 PM |
| hey everybody... I have reason to believe this is real. If I find out otherwise, I will try to post it here later. Todd. |
| #7 By 61 (65.32.169.133) at 4/5/2002 9:15:20 PM |
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#23, please tell me that was sarcasm.
If it wasn't, I'd like to say, please go back to slashdot, this isn't a place for uneducated trolls. |
| #8 By 665 (64.126.91.172) at 4/5/2002 9:37:36 PM |
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#23, what reason would Microsoft actually have to spy on us? The public out cry from putting any spy ware in the actual OS would majorly out weigh any benefits. I hope you were joking! This post was edited by ToddAW on Friday, April 05, 2002 at 21:38. |
| #9 By 2062 (63.11.145.123) at 4/6/2002 2:02:26 AM |
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you know im really sick of people that post comments not on the article, "why doesnt ms blah blah blah" oh shut up.
This shockwave looks interesting, but its really just a skim on the surface. If you look at it its dated 9/18/01, and most of the stuff refers to services to be used in office .net, not office .net itself. Usually shockwave is used for internal briefing and nothign major. Im sure if this was a huge layout of office .net there would be a powerpoint. I think this shockwave was made internally to just see how alerts would work in office xp. It could have been made for budget concerns, if you look at the email you see email that references a budget. oh and before i forget, another thing i hate is paul thorouth - the "win informant" ha now what kind of crap is that. this guy thinks he's the biggest ms mole when he knows nothing... -gosh |
| #10 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 4/6/2002 12:05:48 PM |
| #30 - Thank you. With the advent of Mac OSX a lot of people have definately confused looks with UI design. |
| #11 By 61 (65.32.169.133) at 4/6/2002 4:44:41 PM |
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#34, well, I think aside from using "annoying little bitch", you've pretty much lost all credibility.
Just because you don't like them or use them doesn't mean they are irritating or unuseful. I find MS's taskpane revolution, if you will, to be adding quite a bit of productivity enhancements to each of their products that they use them in. The taskbar is actually one of the most important parts of the UI, and no one can come even close to how well it works in Windows. How can you say that XP is nothing more than a skin to Win95? They aren't even based on the same kernel. James: yes, I know, it was OS/2 that they worked on together, and also previous versions of a GUIed operating system, just making a general statement. #30, my point exactly. People don't seem to understand that beauty, sexyness, asthetic appeasment, whatever you want to call it, is not everything to the interface, and is in fact very little, for hte most part. The UI is supposed to give you the most productive environment possible, and if, along the way, that your UI is both very productive and pretty, then, well, you've just outdone yourself :) People keep saying how ugly XP is, fine, slap a skin on it if you don't like it, you can make it look like whatever you want. You have to remember (not you #30, just people) that different people like how things look differently. Some people love the old, tired, bland look of Windows 9x, or even Win3x, others even like the "fisher price" skin for XP. |
| #12 By 5444 (208.180.245.59) at 4/7/2002 7:25:11 PM |
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#37,
Then get desktopx and change the UI to your hearts content. But 2 things. A UI has a standard that has been in business for several years. to play with that UI now is to fool with the LARGEST buyers of your product. APPLE has that luxary as it isn't a business based computer. But there are tools out there to get an APPLE UI if you wish in a PC based computer. Of course if you want the icons and the like you might infringe upon some of Apples copywrites to do it. el |
| #13 By 5444 (208.180.245.59) at 4/7/2002 7:38:47 PM |
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#27,
that is why there are teams. I know plenty of UI specialist that don't know jack about kernal programming or low level engineering programming. I personal couldn't program a UI if it depended on it. I can do underlying database i/o programming. So it takes a team to do programming. Unfortantly UI is a personal preference. I remember the transistion from dos each program had its oun UI to Windows where a standard UI was implemented. Also what is in common usage, be it a bad design or not, is the design that usually stays. A perfect example is the qwerty keyboard over the dvorac keyboard. The later showed increased performance for typist in studies once they learn the new key layouts. It was a more efficient keyboard layout. But how many dvorac keyboards do you see. El. |
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