screenshots?

click on "according" and it will take you to the APC article with 3 images.

Original article is at http://apcmag.com/5780/office_2008_for_mac_hits_beta_shows_slick_ui_and_draws_on_escher and has very small screen shots.

What I find interesting is that Office will have very different navigation (ribbon in Windows) between the two operating systems.

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davebarnes wrote:
Original article is at http://apcmag.com/5780/office_2008_for_mac_hits_beta_shows_slick_ui_and_draws_on_escher and has very small screen shots.

What I find interesting is that Office will have very different navigation (ribbon in Windows) between the two operating systems.

Especially once you <try to> use Office '07. They seem to have made changes just for the sake of making changes. Things like Print are hidden. The biggest request I've been getting from my users is for a "classic" mode in Office '07 that would look like the older versions. But there isn't one. They will get used to it eventually, but I get to hear a lot of complaints until then.

At least the Mac version hasn't gone wakky with changes for changes sake.

Why would you develop your own graphics engine when Apple has built stunning graphics support for applications into Mac OS X? Perhaps the guys at Microsoft cannot bear to have to occasionally call Apple for support on how to efficiently use what is already there. Or perhaps Microsoft insisted that the Mac Office Suite cannot be too efficient, which would upstage the Windows version, so they required the Mac Business Unit to use obtuse workarounds to avoid using any Apple technology and therefore assure a bloated and inefficient program.

Also, without visual basic support (despite what the MBU says, I'm sure this was a corporate decision to handicap the Mac as far a business is concerned), this will be a complete dud for me no matter how many other features they supply. I depend on being able to write and use macros in Excel, and I depend on their ability to work cross-platform.