New Screenshots of Office 2007
Jensen Harris has posted on his blog new screenshots of Office 2007. I like what I see so far. They have redone the colour scheme to a shinier shade of blue, but the changes to the UI are a definite improvement. I am really excited about what Microsoft is doing with this new version of Office. I never thought I would say that about a Microsoft product, but this version really does look inovative.
My favorite part of the interface is the live update. As an example, if you have some text selected and you want to change the font, all you need to do is mouse over the fonts in the font list and the text on the page will automatically update itself. This allows you to see the result of applying that font on the text and on the page. This is how computer programs should work. In addition, the UI updates itself depending on what you are doing, so if you are working in a table, it will show you the operations relevant to a table. Yet another thing that an interface should be able to do.