Office 2008 for Mac boasts inexcusably ugly clipart graphics

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aryayush

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Office 2008 for Mac boasts inexcusably ugly clipart graphics
Posted on Jan. 30, ’08, 12:10 PM PT by Aayush Arya

Joe Clark has posted a Flickr photoset of seven flaws in the latest version of Microsoft Office for Mac, which was released on 15 January of this year—four years after the previous version. Six of the flaws are somewhat insignificant, depending on your level of tolerance and love/hate relationship with Microsoft, but this one concerning the Clip Gallery is just inexcusable, in my humble opinion.

*www.macuser.com/images/2008/01/officeclipart.jpg

The text looks horrible because there’s no antialiasing. There’s a modal dialog box that blocks access to the whole application over a pretty trivial and unnecessary question, in total disregard for Apple’s HIG. The clipart is so unsightly that it seems Microsoft didn’t bother with text and HIG compliance because they knew no one would ever visit the gallery more than once anyway. Read more...

[Via MacUser]


Like I said, deplorable stuff.
 
MetalheadGautham

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why do you macboys even need that Micro$oft Office Suite ? Don't you have something in apple? I vaguely remember Tiger Office, but my mac knowledge is rusty

(why should I bother keeping track of information about something I will never use ?)
 
drgrudge

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Because not all the users have a Mac. Let me share my exp. in this Office Suites. I didn't have MS Office installed, only iWork that point of time.

Pages is good, but somehow I feel Word is better. Maybe I'm used to it? The thing is it doesn't has a lot of features (90% of which you won't use) and cluttered unlike Word.

But Pages is a pain in the ass (Mac) as it's not very compatible with .doc files. When I open some .doc file (for editing, otherwise TextEdit should be fine) it crashes sometimes. When I export to .doc, then the tables are not at all coming. I tried Adobe InDesign CS3 too! But that was a pro app and I need some time to start working on it. I needed to get the things done soon and I had no option but to go for Pages and export to .pdf which might not be the ideal way we want to work everytime.

This made me order MS Office 2008. I'm got the Students/Lite edition as I don't use the extra cr@pware coming along in the Standard/Ultimate editions.


I didn't go through any clip art and stuffs but from the nutshell, it looks a decent product. Atleast way better than Office 2004:Mac.
 
utsav

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Hey Aayush plz dont post that who posted this stuff and when was it posted.it looks ugly too.
 
MetalheadGautham

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drgrudge said:
Because not all the users have a Mac. Let me share my exp. in this Office Suites. I didn't have MS Office installed, only iWork that point of time.

Pages is good, but somehow I feel Word is better. Maybe I'm used to it? The thing is it doesn't has a lot of features (90% of which you won't use) and cluttered unlike Word.

But Pages is a pain in the ass (Mac) as it's not very compatible with .doc files. When I open some .doc file (for editing, otherwise TextEdit should be fine) it crashes sometimes. When I export to .doc, then the tables are not at all coming. I tried Adobe InDesign CS3 too! But that was a pro app and I need some time to start working on it. I needed to get the things done soon and I had no option but to go for Pages and export to .pdf which might not be the ideal way we want to work everytime.

This made me order MS Office 2008. I'm got the Students/Lite edition as I don't use the extra cr@pware coming along in the Standard/Ultimate editions.


I didn't go through any clip art and stuffs but from the nutshell, it looks a decent product. Atleast way better than Office 2004:Mac.
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thats why we need to use open standards like OpenDocumentFormat instead of propiatary stuff like iWork, M$ Office, etc. Using them will never result in one getting stuck with a single software.

and how can you say iWork's Pages is bad ? Aren't all Macware supposed to be the best of the best ?
 
drgrudge

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^^
I've tried this AbiWord, but it sucks. Now I've both iWork and Office 2008:Mac installed.

When did I say Pages is bad? I said "Pages is good, but somehow I feel Word is better. Maybe I'm not used to it?"


All the Macware aren't the best of the best. 95% of the Mac softwares are best of the best. The apps needn't be developed by Apple. The Apps are one of the reason why I use a Mac and will continue to use in future.
 
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aryayush

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MetalheadGautham said:
Aren't all Macware supposed to be the best of the best ?
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Not all, but most, yeah. And Pages is much better than Word if you don't deal with DOC files on a regular basis. :)

utsav said:
Hey Aayush plz dont post that who posted this stuff and when was it posted.it looks ugly too.
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You're supposed to credit the author whenever you post their article somewhere. I do this for every article I post, irrespective of who wrote it. It's called netiquette. :)
 
utsav

utsav

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aryayush said:
You're supposed to credit the author whenever you post their article somewhere. I do this for every article I post, irrespective of who wrote it. It's called netiquette. :)
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:D giving credit to urself so that no one can say that u copy pasted it without giving credits to the author :lol: :razz:
 
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aryayush

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Yeah, I would be very angry at the person who posted my articles somewhere without crediting me. And I don't want to be angry with myself. :p
 
drgrudge

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^^
I can't get your point. Why would I want to bother abt Office 2007? I don't care about something I might not find any use of.
 
hellknight

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Hey you Macboys can also try NeoOffice, it is based on OpenOffice and has a Mac theme or should I say Aqua interface. It doesn't requuires installation of X11 from the OS DVD. Try it.
 
Zeeshan Quireshi

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drgrudge said:
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I can't get your point. Why would I want to bother abt Office 2007? I don't care about something I might not find any use of.
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The point that you think(as do most people) that MS office is cluttered .

But Office 2007 is revolutionary , every little feature is there on the ribbon and you can access all the features easily , without any of it feeling cluttered .
 
drgrudge

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Zeeshan Quireshi said:
The point that you think(as do most people) that MS office is cluttered .

But Office 2007 is revolutionary , every little feature is there on the ribbon and you can access all the features easily , without any of it feeling cluttered .
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Like I said earlier, I don't care how the product is for other OS platforms. FYI, Office 2008:Mac UI is different from what have in MS office for Windows (not 2007).
 
Zeeshan Quireshi

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It's an attempt to Implement a Ribbon-Like interface for the Mac Version .

But i agree with you , the Mac Interface is nowhere close to the comfort of Office 2007 . My sympathies ;)
 
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