Office 12 reactions

::: {.Section1} [Microsoft showed Office 12 for the first time in public during the keynotes. The most obvious thing is that they’ve gotten rid of dropdown menus; choosing a high-level menu now puts a taskbar in a tabbed interface (I think is how it works – it was difficult to comprehend). No sign of ink, as a matter of fact, the only sign was that the “ink comments” button in Word is still there, hinting that there’s not any further suport. ]{style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"}

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[Outlook will have built-in support for RSS reading, including synchronizing content for offline viewing (additionally, of course, in Vista there will be a unified RSS store). Outlook will automatically preview attached files – let’s see how long [that]{style="font-style:italic"} lasts before some hacker figures out how to use it as a route towards hacking the system! ]{style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"}

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