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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Microsoft Office 12: new user interface
From:       kent () mslinux ! com
Date:       2005-09-23 11:17:12
Message-ID: 20050923041712.t1ryytb39204c4g0 () webmail ! aresnetwork ! com
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> I think the new user interface is great. It's not nice for the Office
> developers to hear that 9 of 10 features are already implemented but
> nobody finds them so they had to change the user interface. This way the
> user finds all features he needs much better. Office "12" is definitely
> on my "must-have" list for next year (along with Windows Vista :) The UI
> is not finished though and it won't look the way it does at the moment.

Hey this is wonderful.  If you want to buy a copy of Office 12, I'll give you
the money to buy it so you can dissect the living hell out of it and see what
we can do to better improve KOffice. =)

I bet Mircrosoft have some of the area in their Office 12 patent.  Figure out
which countries those patents are valid and which are not.  Implement 
all these
features into KOffice as in code format, this way we have to the code, 
and when
a distributor wants to distribute it in the U.S., he/she could ifdef out the
offending patents.  hehe. =)  I would imagine one day, we can MAKE the exact
interface as Microsoft in countries that DO NOT respect US patents and never
have Microsoft touch that Office market at all because KOffice will be so much
faster and the interface is exactly like Microsoft.  They wouldn't want to buy
$500 worth of crap when they can get KOffice for free.  =)

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