Comments on: Microsoft job teases Office 14 and new Office Workspaces team

By: Jazman@UK

Jazman@UK — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:52:51 +0000

*bump?*

LOL. I dont want Windows anyway. xD

@Andre Da Costa: Haha. Go Office for Mac team!

And I’m british. I dont think Nintendo is supersTITious they released 3 NEW DS Lite colours to the UK with no delay. Strange :/

By: Andre Da Costa

Andre Da Costa — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:04:42 +0000

I received a response from a Team member of the Office for Mac Team a few months ago that they will not be skipping the number 13 for the release following Office 2008. So only Office for Windows Team seem to be superstitious.

By: iBenshi

iBenshi — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:58:04 +0000

Lol @ Keeron!

By: ikyouCrow

ikyouCrow — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:56:33 +0000

@Matt Sharpe:
i can’t remember exactly where i read that office version numbers alternate between windows and mac. 13 is Magnesium and 14 is er… the next windows version (what ever the code-name ends up being).

By: Andrew Askew

Andrew Askew — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:08:50 +0000

i think mac office is on a different version scale, could be wrong, but its not like office 97 (win) vs office 98 (mac)

By: Keeron

Keeron — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:32:47 +0000

Maybe “Office 13″ is a Mac-only release ?

By: Matt Sharpe

Matt Sharpe — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:53:13 +0000

Wtf, skipping 13 cos it’s unlucky? That’s ridiculous! What’s next, banning occurrences of 1101?

By: Andrew Askew

Andrew Askew — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:23:06 +0000

yup, they skipped 13, cuz it’s unlucky, kinda lame imo

By: Jason D

Jason D — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:41:52 +0000

Did they skip “unlucky version 13″ like the elevator in a hotel?

By: dugbug

dugbug — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:26:19 +0000

I hope they learn the value of consistency. MS has had some terrible misfires at GUIs. There is a strong faction within that company that each application creates its own GUI elements rather than adhere to an overarching design pattern/appearance.

The .NET evangelists that have given me presentations were ecstatic (to use the term loosely) that a winfx developer can create scrollbars with rounded or straight corners “with ease” if they did not like the vista standard. Anything else is refered to as “battleship gray” and “old school”. I couldn’t help but to think someone armed with a baseball hat needs to walk the hallways a few times out there in redmond.

Look at the new experssion web for more divergence. Now I don’t think ribbons fall into this category (I think they should be pushed into the shell actually), but prior office versions always reinvented their own toolbars for absolutely no reason.

-d