When will this crappy Office 2013 gonna get replaced with a decent Office like 2010? One that doesn't install SkyDrive even though you have selected in the options not to install it, you still find 4 startup entries for SkyDrive that conflict with OneDrive if you check the system log what is it gonna be named and when's the date?
Next version of Microsoft Office will be released in 3rd quarter of 2015 and will be called Office 2016. Office 2000 - released June 1999 Office 2003 - released November 2003 Office 2007 - released January 2007 Office 2010 - released June 2010 Office 2013 - released October 2012 There is a method to their particular madness!
Whenever it does, I wish it does two things for me: 1. make the ribbon more friendly to the eye like office 2007/10 2. bring back option of show all windows in the taskbar
Yes. Office 2013 is downright painful to look at. I forget what it is I was trying to do one day, wondering why I could not click an OK button. Eventually I found a text field that required input before the button would activate. It took a long time to find because it was a white box with a white border on a white background. I thought Office was designed for humans, not dogs. Somebody forgot that most of us can see colors.
Just my opinion but I think that over the last few cycles of office and windows, what is implemented in office is replicated in windows, and vice versa. For example, the round orb of office 2007 in windows 7. Then MS went for a flatter look in windows 8/8.1 which I frankly like over windows 7. But for me they have botched up the flat look completely in office 2013. The icons are too big and with the same icons on taskbar, it is 50% of horizontal screen on office 2010 but more than 75-80% in office 2013. Find it difficult to hunt. I usually put many frequently used icons on the taskbar and in office 2007/2010, I could easily recognise what they meant without hovering the mouse. Not so in office 2013. Icons in general and icons in taskbar are more blurry or whatever, but they are not easy on the eye or the brain. For these and other reasons, I use office 2010 as my default though I have a office 2013 licence too. The only thing that I found good for me in office 2013 is importing pdf and seeing that office 2013 does a good job of preserving formating/tables. Come to think of it: which company will go stubbornly designing stuff that makes it difficult. I am stuck with office 2010 for best productivity. I am fine with 8/8.1 but not many are not. Perhaps the internet/media caught on windows 8 goof-ups and forgot to highlight problems that people may face in office 2013 visual look. That could imply that office 2015-16 could be worse of the same.
