If you downloaded the Microsoft 2007 Office system Beta 2 Technical Refresh (pardon me while I eat a bunch of jello, saying that just hurt my mouth) you may have noticed that all the Office splash screens and icons are now more slick looking and different. They area partially-rounded box shape, as seen in the pic here, and I think it adds a little something to the look and feel of Office. Of course this isn't by any means a big new feature, but I am always interested in little UI tweaks that draw the user a bit more toward a product based on the look, which the new icons in Office does.
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Subscribe to commentsshadekhOct 1st 2006 10:46AM
Though the icons are different, I did not like the look much. The office icons should receive a refresh, but not such a drastic change, and i felt the new look was rather unconventional and gave off a feeling of unprofessionalism. They should have just visually updated the look a bit instead of changing it so drastically.
William C BonnerOct 1st 2006 12:32PM
I'm glad to see that someone else didn't like the new icons. I thought they looked muddy. The looked more like inksplots on my screen than the crisp icons that were in the previous version.
I've taken it for granted that these changes happen and I have to learn to recognize a new icon to do the same thing every couple of years. Sometimes the change is good, and sometimes it's bad. If I want the new features, it's just somethignI've got to accept, and complaining about it doesn't help.
The machine that I've been playing with the new office stuff is a machine that I only terminal service into, so I don't know if the icons look better on a directly connected digital screen.