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BlaBlaBla4042

I found this through msdn blogs: http://officeblogs.net/UI/UX09_Harris.pdf
It's a PDF documents which explains the evolution of the Office 2007 Ribbon UI... it's very interesting and beautiful .-. but I was shocked when I saw this: http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/ ... .26822.png
It looks really fantastic.. (I love the slate theme)

Someone knows more about this? 8-)

Whistler4Ever

Very, very nice PDF you got here, even enough interesting, if there will be any "Like" button, I'll give you a like

BlaBlaBla4042

Whistler4Ever wrote:

Very, very nice PDF you got here, even enough interesting, if there will be any "Like" button, I'll give you a like

I'd like to get my hands on that build of MS Office that fits perfectly to Longhorn

but I think that is a bit impossible xD

eggi36

That's just a mockup, look at the time from the sidebar-clock and from the taskbar clock from the pictures inside the pdf file.

BlaBlaBla4042

eggi36 wrote:

That's just a mockup, look at the time from the sidebar-clock and from the taskbar clock from the pictures inside the pdf file.

What's wrong with the time from the sidebar-clock and the taskbar clock?!? By the way there are pictures that don't seem to be a mockup according to me... but I can't confirm what I said

Pwned

This doesn't seem to be a mockup (no Cleartype fonts). Could be a Office 2007 alpha.

EDIT: There are also early concept Plex (ReflectiaX) style prototypes.

LeoaprM95

Very true: some pictures seem to show real build according to me. Nice to see the development on the ribbon!

BlaBlaBla4042

Mmmm... maybe Microsoft reset Office 12 development while they reset Longhorn development?

eggi36

BlaBlaBla4042 wrote:

eggi36 wrote:

That's just a mockup, look at the time from the sidebar-clock and from the taskbar clock from the pictures inside the pdf file.

What's wrong with the time from the sidebar-clock and the taskbar clock?!? By the way there are pictures that don't seem to be a mockup according to me... but I can't confirm what I said

Hm, at the taskbar it is 5:01 PM and on the sidebar it is 6:18 PM

hounsell

It's from a Mix presentation where one of the Office UX guys walked through the ribbon from earliest sketches to end product. The PDF is just the powerpoint slides, you should watch the full video really.

Emir214

This question has been bugging me since the time the presentation came out: is it possible to create themes for Office 2007 or 2010?

BlaBlaBla4042

@eggi36 mmm... I didn't noticed that. Yes, that's strange but the problem is that that picture looks like a real copy of Longhorn and that Office 12 too looks real to me

that's strange...

Emir214

BlaBlaBla4042 wrote:

@eggi36 mmm... I didn't noticed that. Yes, that's strange but the problem is that that picture looks like a real copy of Longhorn and that Office 12 too looks real to me

that's strange...

I guess these are all mockups, just like the Longhorn demos. (I'm not sure though. It's been a long time since I've watched this Mix 08 presentation. My memory may be failing me.)

Of course, the Office team was able to deliver. No wonder Steven Sinofsky is currently at the helm.

Kapi

That was a pretty good read. I'll admit, I don't really like the Ribbon Interface, but its neat to see how it evolved. They look like mockups, but who knows?

DeFacto

Regarding the time difference: it's simmilar to Neptune's AC concept where you can see a broken image placeholder. This is what concepts are, probably mashed up from various screenshots...

Pizzaface

I didn't like the Ribbon Interface in Office 2007, but in 2010 I liked the File Button.

But in Windows 8, I really wish they kept the Regular Explorer.

hogsy

eggi36 wrote:

Hm, at the taskbar it is 5:01 PM and on the sidebar it is 6:18 PM

Also in most of the shots the time on the sidebar and taskbar remain the same.

STeeLhawk

Almost has a Watercolor-ish look to it. I like the different headings for the Ribbon tabs too, it seems a lot more intuitive than what we got in the final version. Even if this is just a mockup, it looks nice! Makes me wonder what could've been.

john11

I prefer what we got over this, the real version looks a lot cleaner. But it is very interesting to see what they were thinking originally.

DarkerJ

This looks so much nicer than the current ribbon UI, despite being a mockup.

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