Microsoft Office 12 just feel “mac”

Major news site has revealed the next generation office, Microsoft Office 12, which is presented in PDC 2005. The new office used a pretty cool GUI with graphics intensive. Its toolbar is now full of graphics. It got a feel of Windows Vista but it is a little bit feel like “mac”. By looking at the screenshot shown at the first impression, it got something “apple”. Anyway, with the new and innovative design of GUI, some users may not get used to it. But I do think it is good to see the program keeps on imputing new ideas. New look sure to be vital to keep the existing customers.

The Office 12 would also include some new feature like “Super tooltips” that provide help topics to assist users to use the office easily in a new way. There are also some improvement in the “Galleries”.

The first beta would be available in this fall and planned to be released on the second half of 2006 alongside Windows Vista. I am looking forward to seeing this significant changes for Office and hoping to be shocked once it is released.