Leaked screenshots reveal UI of Office ‘Gemini’ Apps

Thanks to a Microsoft Research post we get to have a look at what could be the UI for the upcoming modern app versions of Microsoft Office.

The post is about a unified inking concept in Windows, but that’s not the most interesting thing, the slides show the UI of the new Modern Windows apps for Office, codenamed ‘Gemini’.

Source

I tried to find the original source, but I think it has been removed.
 
The thing that will be strange with these apps are with the Surface RT and 8 inch tablet crowd. Instead of fill bore Office versions, it will be all be simpler apps. This may or may not be a good thing.
 

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OneNote App isn't too bad on the tablet though. I think from the first version it may not be super robust, but over time it will become as good as the desktop version, there is no choice of they want viability out of it, otherwise that venture will be a waste of time for them.



From everything I am seeing come out of MS these days they aren't in the mood to waste time on a venture like this when pushing the overall Surface concept. They are committed to success and I believe they will succeed.
People right now are still stuck in the old mentality of what they think a real tablet is, MS will cater to the iPad and Chrome crowd, true. But those apps won't be as robust in the long run as they will on a Surface or WinX PC.
 

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