Office 12 Preview
September 18th, 2005 by 
Zack Whittaker
After Windows Vista, I think Office 12 is the next thing on people’s minds for techies across the globe. Windows Vista is nearly at Beta2 stage which will be a public beta, so that anyone can download it and try it out and leave feedback to the product teams, however Office 12 (the next version of the popular Microsoft Office) also seems to be highly anticipated as the best version of Office there has ever been.
Watched this video of Julie Larson Green on MSDN Channel9 and it shows that Office 12 (still in codename, not sure what it’ll be called yet) has a whole new interface. She was using a Windows XP machine yet Word 12 as well as the rest of them have a Vista feel to it. Not sure whether this was meant to be, or just to co-inside with Vista but with the graphics and all, I can only presume that it uses “Avalon” (Windows Presentation Foundation) with it. With the new features (over a thousand new ones) they’ve made everything much easier to access and instead of having drop down menu’s such as File, Insert and View etc. they now have different categories along the top and depending on which componant of Office you are using, they change and have all the options relevant to that option there in a new dashboard style thing.
With some excellend features and the beta version coming out either late this year or early next, this looks like a real breakthrough for Microsoft Office.
Really sorry these picture links look screwed up, I did my best, honest!
▪ Download the video from Channel 9 of Office 12 (618MB)
▪ Visual Studio 12
▪ Office FrontPage 12 (SharePoint)
▪ New message in Outlook 12
▪ Calendar in Outlook 12
▪ Save dialog in Office 12
▪ Save dialog in Office 12 in Windows Vista
▪ Office Word 12
▪ Signature insertion in Word 12
▪ Document inspector in Word 12
▪ Comparison of old Windows graphics against Office 12 graphics
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14 Comments »
September 18th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
Here is :
http://pdc.xbetas.com/?page=o12preview1
September 19th, 2005 at 7:31 am
Nice Screenshots ‘Pit’ 🙂
September 19th, 2005 at 7:50 am
Dean your blog looks so nice…did you write it yourself (code)?
Damn Office 12 looks nice…I hope clipit is still in there 😀
September 19th, 2005 at 8:48 am
Ha ha Clippit… I’m sure he’s still hanging around
September 19th, 2005 at 9:00 am
lmao @ Patrick 😛
I designed the Layout/pictures/content etc, but I used an Management system, so i can post news/blog etc.
You guys got MSN?
September 19th, 2005 at 9:33 am
Yeah we do have MSN. BTW, nice site you got there! 🙂
Clippit?? Hope it goes away! LOL he is annoying!
September 19th, 2005 at 9:52 am
Wanna chat over MSN 🙂
I get the feeling we could be good friends 😛
September 19th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
Thats what that stupid 5219 sidebar needs, is a big dancing annoying Clippit on it! heh heh 🙂
September 19th, 2005 at 7:11 pm
Ha Ha Ha yea…Doubble his size!!
Sure Dean I am keen… How am i going to do this…um…
Private message me on the forum (ping is my user) cause the web2messenger service is down for the moment the blasm tells me…
Thatll do 🙂
look forward to your message 😀
Patrick
September 19th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
Feel free to do the same (PM me).
September 20th, 2005 at 2:45 pm
Hope to speak to you soon, btw guys what do you think of that grey interface
September 20th, 2005 at 9:48 pm
Grey interface of…?
September 21st, 2005 at 9:35 am
Office 12, you know the Gallerys at the top!
September 25th, 2005 at 11:16 pm
You’re doing a great work here. I enjoyed visiting here very much. Thanks! No proof of ideas: http://matrixsynth.com/blog/index.php/2005/09/06/exclusively_analogue_sequencer_on_the_ba_1 , There was once this guy