health-check domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home2/bradbecker/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121I’m at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference <\/a>today and watched Bill Gates unveil various products including recent builds of Windows Vista. But the big surprise (other than the great video featuring Bill Gates and Napolean Dynamite <\/a>as roommates) was the new UI in Office 12.<\/p>\n Read my lips: no new menus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Actually, there were no menus at all. I haven’t had the chance to play with the new suite myself but the demos this morning showed a surprising new UI for Office that had replaced all application menus with graphical palettes. I’m at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference <\/a>today and watched Bill Gates unveil various products including recent builds of Windows Vista. But the big surprise (other than the great video featuring Bill Gates and Napolean Dynamite <\/a>as roommates) was the new UI in Office 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scarynoises.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scarynoises.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scarynoises.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scarynoises.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scarynoises.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scarynoises.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scarynoises.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scarynoises.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scarynoises.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI had expected to yawn through the presentation of Office 12. Instead, I was struck by a burning desire to play with it immediately. I have a healthy fear of pre-beta software though (learned the hard way) so I\u2019ll settle for being one of the first in line for the beta.
\nIn the meantime, I\u2019m pondering the ramifications to users and wondering whether this will become a trend or not. These apps are some of the most widely used apps in the world and their last significant UI innovation (toolbars) was eight years ago\u2014practically a lifetime in this industry. It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this but either way, it’s exciting to see what might <\/em><\/strong>be a widespread step forward in desktop software user experience.
\nYou can read more about the rationale and research behind it here <\/a>and, even better, check out hi-res images of each of the Office products.
\nStay tuned tomorrow and Wednesday for more surprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"