Microsoft is working on a new user interface system for the next Microsoft Office, code-named Office 12. The new system is supposed to reverse the well-known WYSIWYG style that dominated the UI for the last twenty-five years. This new generation is called the results-oriented user interface, and it will help the users to benefit from the thousands of buried features in software like Word and Excel. Apple was behind the rise of WYSIWYG, but the question is: can Microsoft outperform Apple when it comes to design?
This could be a big thing for software development, because according to usability expert Jakob Nielsen, "users often demand that other user interfaces work like Office." However, David Galbraith disagrees with Nielsen, because "Microsoft has a terrible record at UI which is results oriented." He thinks that Office biggest problem is that it was designed to deal a type of documents that belongs to past, and not with this new era of "email and weblogs, websites, shared web updatable financial data and multimedia mashups." # »
This could be a big thing for software development, because according to usability expert Jakob Nielsen, "users often demand that other user interfaces work like Office." However, David Galbraith disagrees with Nielsen, because "Microsoft has a terrible record at UI which is results oriented." He thinks that Office biggest problem is that it was designed to deal a type of documents that belongs to past, and not with this new era of "email and weblogs, websites, shared web updatable financial data and multimedia mashups." # »
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