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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Grava:
"Grava is a set of tools developed for the needs of those creating educational content. By giving easy access to the power of .NET and WPF and enabling SMEs Grava provides enriched outputs at reduced cost and effort."
Grava is scheduled to be released in sync with Office 14:
Grava is going to integrate with Office 14 and as the following slide indicates, it's pulling its design from Office:
Does this mean that the following prototype screen shot is Office 14 with Grava integrated? I noticed that instead of the Office logo in the orb, there's a 'G' to obviously signify Grava, so does this mean we're looking at a standalone Grava application or a conceptual idea for how the interface of Office might change to signify the user is currently using Grava? If nothing else, we can see the ribbon influence in yet another application and further indication that the ribbon is certainly not going away in Office 14.
-Stephen
5 comments:
Ooh! thanks for sharing! please keep up your coverage / discoveries of Office 14 - While Windows 7 has been getting plenty of coverage, Office 14 seems to have been totally devoid of news. sure, there was a bit on the web app components, but as a Technical tester for v12, I'm eager to see where things are heading! :-)
Grava sounds neat, but I'm not liking the name.
I hope all of Office 14 doesn't have that new look, like the one in the screenshot of the mystery app. The blue is way too shiny and distracting.
Microsoft should position Encarta into an educational tool itself, instead of an encyclopedia. A place to get rich information and graphics, tools to help students, and maybe even school data management (like Gradebook, Roll, etc.). It'd be pretty interesting.
Just to note, Grava's a WPF application, not native code.
How about http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=787 ?
Damn.
I was really, really hoping that Microsoft would stick a fork in the Ribbon. It reduces efficiency, takes up screen room, and is both not required for and detracts from the very real improvements in Office 2007.
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