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I certainly wouldn't bet on that. Did you read the UI research the Office team published with the release of the 2007 version? The amount of work they put in d

by smokinn 17y ago

I certainly wouldn't bet on that. Did you read the UI research the Office team published with the release of the 2007 version? The amount of work they put in determining what their clients needed and how they used the software and what would make them more productive is staggering. It's the best UI research I've ever read. Here's a presentation about how they went about their work: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story-of-the-ribbon.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story-o...

mmorris 17y ago
Certainly MS does put a lot of work (and money) into trying to improve their UIs. Unfortunately, whether it's due to the huge feature set of the Office applications or legacy support required by certain clients, the result of their work is not something most would hold up as a shining beacon of UI design. While Office 2007 is a step up from 2003 in a number of ways, I'd have to agree with onreact that I wouldn't expect much from the eventual web app version of Office. At least not in the initial release.