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Starting with its ribbon, the standout feature is the Quick Steps box. Elsewhere, the interface, cosmetic differences aside, is very similar to that of Outlook By default your folder view is on the left, with calendars and tasks on the right, and your inbox and preview pane through the middle. One change in the interface comes in the addition of the People Pane which, when activated, sits below emails.
Of all the new features of Outlook , the People Pane is our favourite as it saves a lot of sifting through old emails to find what you need. It also feeds you status updates from social networks, a feature reliant on what Microsoft calls Social Connectors. Social Connectors are plug-ins for social networks, with LinkedIn and MySpace currently available and Facebook and others due later this year. Once installed they will pull all sorts of information from the networks, including the obvious like status updates but also more useful stuff like contact information and profile photos.
This feature has great potential, then, but in its current form it has its limitations. Your local and LinkedIn contacts are kept separate, creating duplications and ultimately not making best use of all that extra information. This approach is understandable to an extent as users would probably complain more if their carefully constructed address book was sullied, but some way of merging this data would be extremely useful and a natural next step.
One addition we have no quibbles with, though, is Calendar Preview. Outlook remains a peerless and extremely powerful email client, but — ribbon interface aside — not all of its new features are resounding successes. Unlike Word, Excel and PowerPoint, which feel close to exactly as intended, Outlook has elements that feel like a work in progress and its HTML rendering should be much better by now.
OneNote is a great application that almost no one uses. Neither is particularly developed though, as the idea with OneNote is to keep things as simple as possible, hence why the ribbon is hidden by default. Probably the most noticeable improvement in OneNote is the addition of a docked view. This is activated via a shortcut on the Quick Access Toolbar, and as the name suggests docks a minimised version of OneNote to the right side of the screen. This effectively acts as the edge of the screen, with active windows automatically re-sized to fit inside it and anything dragged toward it being hidden behind.
This includes pinch to zoom, finger panning — where you can move around a notepad with one finger and draw with the other — and some improved UI controls for touch users.
There are numerous editing enhancements, but students who deal with mathematics will be best pleased with the newly added support for equations. OneNote has also become more Wiki-like in operation.
All these additions, and the many other tweaks made to enhance editing and searchability, make OneNote a solid incremental upgrade on the previous version. And interact is very much the buzz word here, because Microsoft has designed Web Apps to be symbiotic with their desktop counterparts. This is both a good and a bad thing — good because it makes sharing documents and information much easier; bad because as a consequence Web Apps lack the depth to stand alone if necessary.
We should probably qualify that last part a bit. If you just want to tap out a basic document and the like, the Web Apps will do their job okay. However, while not obviously apparent, each one has limitations that make them inferior to the likes of Google Docs and Zoho that we covered in our 5 Best Free Office Alternatives feature.
One must only glance at the ribbon in each application to see this, as they are considerably smaller than their desktop counterparts. Indeed, there are quite a few inconsistencies across the apps, with the PowerPoint Web App being the only one to offer up the enhanced SmartArt options so enjoyed in the desktop application. Other niggles include a lack of support for legacy Office file formats, with only XML-based files.
Also, the Open in Word, Excel etc. Despite all these little faults, however, as a version 1. ActiveX limitations aside, browser support is also faultless. In the final reckoning, it delivers handsomely on so many levels and shows that Windows 7 was no fluke. Microsoft is back on form. That Office is more advanced and comprehensive than any other office suite out there cannot be disputed and Office adds an ease of use previously lacking, but whether its myriad of features are necessary depends on your needs.
If not, carry on as you are.
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