I just saw that my boss, Eric Wilfrid, and his boss, Takeshi Numoto, have an interview in TechFlash today: Mac and Windows: Microsoft’s two Office teams getting tighter. I especially like Eric’s question about how MacBU manifests its independence:
The pride is absolutely there in tailoring an Office experience for the Mac and for what Mac customers would expect. In 2011, you’ve probably seen the full-screen view in Word. That’s an experience that my team came up with based on Mac customer needs and something that we could do really, really well on the Mac. I think that you can expect to see us continue to do that, where there’s an experience piece of Office that really makes sense on the Mac, whether it’s full-screen view or the way we do the ribbon or the new dynamic reorder. We’ll continue to have a different voice that matches our customer needs.
And that is exactly why I do what I do!
Fullscreen is in deed a nice feature. But I find it rather anoying that each time I change from Layout-View to fullscreen the zoom changes back to 125%. I change that, but the next time it’s again 125. Why is that? Or better: Where can I change that behaviour?
Thanks for reporting that! I’ve passed it along to the Word team to investigate.
This isn’t directly related to the post, but I just noticed that the icon for Outlook contains a bit of an optical illusion. Nice.