Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Office 15 will use squares scheme similar to the Windows Phone 7

One of the hits Microsoft's Windows  Phone 7 is the interface called Metro IU. The company managed to escape the standard set by Apple and copied by slightly Android. For this we used the famous icons in a square, a technique that is repeated throughout the system. It sounds like they really liked the outcome, the point of wanting to copy it in the conventional computer software.

The next version of Office, which has not been released and has version number 15, adopts the interface of squares in the use of an apparently new feature: photo gallery for the Internet. In a video posted on the Internet can better understand how the feature works.


The photo gallery is created from the application called Moorea for now, that does not exist in earlier versions of the suite. Once your photo is chosen, it automatically creates a web page with a panel on which the user selects the photo you want to see full size. For both, depends on Internet Explorer and an ActiveX control.

Some say that Office 15 will be released along with Windows 8 (other name not confirmed), and therefore will depend on an unprecedented integration between software and operating system. Furthermore, possibly we will focus tablets, a new class of devices that is gaining size month by month. If so, it is reasonable to say that adherence to the interface of WP7 is the most obvious and easy way that Microsoft could take.