Beta-riffic
So, Rob - the IT Proffessional, finds himself running a mirriad of Beta software, Office 2k7, IE7, and even Opera 9 my favorite of these is still technically a beta.
Office is very pretty, at it’s nice being able to make dramatic document changes simply by waving my wrist - but, it’s slow. All the hovering magic - and everything has a hovering effect. Seems to not be speedy - though it is smooth and pretty
Opera I love. It is quite fast, especially at opening and closing - and that’s with it remembering the last 14 tabs I had open - not to mention it stores back/forward history for each tab. And, if you are not all the way converted to tabs - opera will help you with that all new windows are redirected to tabs - and things that simply must pop up are in little pop-ups - that have no true nav, and are linked to the main opera window. Very managable.
IE7… it’s better than IE6. Tabbed browsing, cleaner interface, better css implentation (still not perfect), and a few minor annoying bugs.
I suppose the real neat thing is that MS is attempting to kill the ‘File’ Menu Interface it standardised - exchanging it for prettier neccessary button commands and large icons. As a tablet user, an even as a mouse user - it’s far time major app vendors think about how much resolution we actually have and how much faster it is to click on a big button than a 5px x 5px one - wink to you adobe.
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