Video Killed the Screenshot Star

This morning, new information was published on the Office 2007 Preview web site, including a new video of the UI in action and updated links to sign up to receive information about Beta 2.

The build used in the video is a little old (it was shot in early January), but it still looks more or less like Beta 1 Technical Refresh.

Check the site out.

And no mean comments about my acting ability, please! :)

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 27, 2006
  Very nice!  Brief, yet comprehensive demo of the new capabilities.  
  
  I look forward to everything except the "little circle" Office menu.

• Anonymous
  March 27, 2006
  You did forget one thing, though. The video makes it look as though dialog boxes have gone away completely, limiting the user's formatting choices to the few designs offered in the galleries. This will turn a lot of people off, I think. Even a few quick sentences could have avoided this problem:
  
  Julie: But don't worry. If you still want to access the old dialog boxes, they are still there.
  Jensen: Simply click the small arrow in the lower right corner of a ribbon group to bring up a dialog for that feature. [Demonstrates]
  
  It's a little late to change that now, though.

• Anonymous
  March 27, 2006
  Can you put that on for download as well. Cause streaming with 2 Mbit/s doesn't seam to be the best way of spreading this content.
  
  Greetings from Austria
  Georg

• Anonymous
  March 27, 2006
  Jensen,
  
  This looks great! I agree about the dialogs thing, but aside from that, this offers a much better view of the new UI, and certainly clears up a lot of miscommunication that can occur from the screenshots!
  
  Great job to you, Julie, and the rest of the team!

• Anonymous
  March 27, 2006
  i hope we can turn off the delay when you mouse over the tabs. i want the fastest possible interface, i don't need a delay when i put the mouse on insert or page layout or whatever. it's the same in vista, i don't care how many redraws it takes to close a window with animation, when i choose to close or minimize a window, i want it out of the way right now.

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
  Very nice and informative video, we get a much better idea than just looking at the nice screenshots.
  
  I have a question though, I'm not sure if it's been answered on the blog before: with all the new stuff going on in the UI, won't Office 2007 consume a lot more system memory? Especially with the Live Preview...it seems to me that such a feature would be quite slow on older machines (I don't know the expected system reqts either :p) Can the Live Preview be disabled?

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
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• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
  How does the ribbon work with shortcut keys? And are keyboard commands responsive?
  
  It is really annoying when shortcuts are not responsive. For example Alt+F followed closely (with delay less than 1/10 s) by A should open "Save as..." dialog not type 'a' into your document or cause audio message to be played.
  
  Slow UI is extremely annoying in Windows Explorer where it is almost impossible (and extremely irritating) to turn file compression on by typing: "Context Menu Key", R, D, C, Enter, A or Enter.

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
  Bettina,
  
  The capabilities to make better-looking documents are of course but one of the many advantages of the UI.
  
  For this video, we wanted to play up those capabilities in particular--but you're right, it's only a a small part of the overall picture.

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
  Both the preview links are now dead (404). Can you get them back? I'd like to refer a few more people to this.
  

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
  Gary, there is no delay when selecting a tab.  The video shows the interface moving much slower than it does in real life, and features appear and dissapear depending on which feature is being discussed on screen (for example, Live Previews only works in some scenes, but not others, using the exact same buttons).  I suspect they tweaked the UI for the video to make it slower and more obvious.

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2006
  PingBack from http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/03/29/office-2007-in-action/

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2006
  PingBack from http://flyingsparks.wwwfiles.de/2006-03-29/office-ui-video/

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2006
  By the way, your acting was great.

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2006
  Wow, you guys even copy Apple with your videos. Your video (with designers discussing the design)  is a total rip-off of the Jonathan Ive videos whenever Apple would introduce a new piece of hardware.

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2006
  Xin chao, Minh den tu HL, minh mong muon duoc lam quen voi tat ca cac ban. Thanks you
  

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2006
  Xin chao, Minh den tu HL, minh mong muon duoc lam quen voi tat ca cac ban. Thanks you
  

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2006
  Xin chao, Minh den tu HL, minh mong muon duoc lam quen voi tat ca cac ban. Thanks you
  

• Anonymous
  April 02, 2006
  Great blog.
  A lot of my customers are using Terminal Server. I hope that the effects of the new UI are not critical in these environments.

• Anonymous
  April 11, 2006
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• Anonymous
  October 21, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 02, 2009
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