Office UI Giveaway: What's Old Is New Again
Microsoft
announced
a plan to let software developers use the Office User Interface royalty-free
to build apps that should be easy to learn -- provided you are adept at Office
(I still find Word to be about the most difficult app to fully master, and sometimes
even keep under control).
Looks to me like Microsoft flaks are recycling press releases. A decade or so
ago, when I wrote for InfoWorld, Microsoft announced what seems to be
the exact same thing. As I recall, some folks like Visio hopped onboard, while
competitors like Lotus and WordPerfect politely declined.
Posted by Doug Barney on November 30, 2006 at 11:52 AM