Press Conference from Steve Ballmer [2012]

Well, after a full day of using Office 15 I quite like it. It's definitely got a Metro feel to it - the animations are nice albeit not likely to have any major impact on productivity. They seem to have finally cottoned on that text wrapping drives a lot of newbie users nuts so they surface that option by default when you insert images.

Some people are going to find the UI a bit plain but it doesn't bother me. Definitely has a flat feel to it. The cursor movement is weird, it's hard to describe but it glides across the page as you are typing.

It's quite clear that this is not a touch application by any stretch of the imagination, and that's not such a bad thing. I now fully expect to see watered down but touch-first versions of Word, PowerPoint etc for Metro. Maybe even for free. I'd sacrifice a lot of power for something that was easy to use for light editing and creation. The OneNote MX app for Metro is encouraging - the radial controls are pretty neat.

Good, but I'm not seeing many major benefits over 2010 at the moment. I really don't like the streaming install either. I don't get the point of it at all.
 
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