One of the tabs is called "Write". Can we sue them? That's suspciously close to the word "Writer," which of course is a part of the OpenOffice.org suite. In fact it is only one letter off. MS sued "Lindows" (and won) and their name was only one letter off. :-)
-Chad Smith On 9/13/05, Benjamin Horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I couldn't really get a feel for it from the screenshots (plus they were > slashdotted so I just saw the thumbnails). > > However, I think a palette-based interface is a superior option, like > Adobe and Macromedia and others use in their applications. (In particular, I > think that OmniGraffle has a great interface: > http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/4/ I don't really like > the drawers in Mac OS X, but that palette on the right of the application is > really nice to use.) > > On the other hand, a radical UI change in MS Office could drive people to > OpenOffice, since it will seem much more familiar to them... And there's the > very long lead time also working to our advantage. > > Ben > > On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, at 04:46PM, Deepankar Datta < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >First seen on Slashdot, the new ('different') UI for Office 12. It > >looks like a fairly radical change > > > >http://pdc.xbetas.com/?page=o12preview1 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -Chad Smith
