Thursday, March 09, 2006 - Posts

Office 2007 Preview + Beta 1 Refresh next week.

Jensen Harris has uploaded some juicy new shots of Office 2007 and I have to admit this is insanely good looking compared to all the previous Office suite's MS have released. Theres a breakdown of per-package of screenshots to take a look.


On that same note, I just got the email that Office 2007 Beta Refresh will hit MS Beta next week! Cant wait!

The New UI Change Experiment
It took me quite some time to get used to the new UI, but once you get the hang of it you wont go back. Its a wonder why MSFT didnt implement the UI earlier as it truely is clever. While I've only used Outlook and a bit of Word I can safely say that the WYSIWYG editing environment is (while a tad hard to understand at first) a godsend. Bravo to the boys at Office... Innovative GUI design! (now we'll just have to wait for other OS's to start imitating it!)

Monday 13th March, UPDATE: Beta 1 Refresh is now online!

First Look: C# v3.0 Features

Some are still coming to love the features found in C# 2.0 (like Generics:D) but MSFT are already hard at work on C# 3.0, Neik on CodePost has posted an article summarising some of the new features coming in C# 3.0.

Certainly some nice additions (not sure on why a 'var' keyword was necessary but definately anonymous types!)

Cant hardly wait for the betas to trickle...