Courtesy of David Gainer in the Microsoft Excel development team – here’s a couple of Excel 2007 skins
Here’s another
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David says these are representative of the final look and feel. If you are interested in how the user interface is being developed and detail about how Microsoft is working to make the user experience more intuitive, then David provides links to Jensen Harris’ UI blog.
This may sound esoteric but if you’re an Excel fan then it is required reading. Do I like it? I’m undecided. Microsoft has put in a huge amount of effort to get this piece right because under the hood, there are fundamental changes that will demand a level of re-learning. If pastel shades and cool colours does it for you then fine.
BTW – who says I’m totally biased against the Borg Microsoft? But watch out for those consultants wanting to make money off the back of the changes. Let’s hope Microsoft does a good job of creating podcast and vidcast tutorials. You’ll almost certainly need them in the early days
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