Kevin Francis:: Yes, but...

All things architectural across the various architectural disiplines, but with a focus on real-world use of architecture and on Microsoft technologies in particular. Oh, and all about me and what I'm up to as well. Blog by Kevin Francis, National Practices and Productivity Manager at Object Consulting in Melbourne, Australia.

Office 2010 - The Movie

www.office2010themovie.com - LoL!! Smile

Clippy?  Is clippy going to make a return?  I would seem so.

I love this idea.  I was (apparently) one of the few people that liked the Office Assistants (although Clippy wasn't the best).  I thought they did an excellent job of 'humanising' what is a fairly bland set of software products (sorry Office Dev team - it does look nice, but only as cool as a productivity suite can be). 

It got me thinking though about the whole concept, and while I don't know what the team is planning, and I can see a nightmare for system admins, Clippy as a portal to social networking for Office users would be a killer.  Clippy delivering Twitter and Facebook messages?  Clippy playing music files?  Either way, I'm thinking that we are moving into a new phase of UI development where things start getting sexy and fun again.  Windows 7 is certainly an advance on that front already.

I'll blog more as soon as I can lay my hands on a beta of Office 2010.

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