What they were talking about was the new MS Office 2003 suite.
And yeah.... im pretty impressed. The new stuff like Outlook is amazing i guess.... but im not really the kinda person to use outlook anyways, so yeah.
BUT........... aparently theres a NEW program thats getting added to the suite. (until now, the only major progs were Word, Excel, PPT, Access and Frontpage)
Microsoft OneNote is a note taking application, for lack of a better description.
Now that dont really sound all that exciting.... but i can tell ya from experience that things like Word or any other text editor jsut DONT cut it when tyour in a lecture class and you need to take notes.... or what about a math class and you need to draw diagrams along withyour notes? There just wasnt enough definability in things like Word.
But in OneNote you can do pretty much anythign you could on a pad of paper and more. Its in the format of a 3-ring-binder.... IE the tabbed sections and multiple pages in those sections.
All kinds of drag-n-drop movability with objects and text..... all the standard formatting stuff like whats already in word and stuff....
one thing i thought was cool is the ability to turn your microphone on and record something like a lecture and OneNote will record all along and what you can do is have it have links to the certain parts of that sound file that was happening at the exact time you were writing that specific not that you click on.
And whats more amaxing is that you can leave that recording and it wont bottom out your HD..... they got the algorithm down to a mere 7mb per hour
I can honestly say i cant wait for the new Office to come out..... i only wish i had this back in my class lectures.... taking notes on my laptop worked, but it just wasnt good enough for what i wanted
if ya wanna look at the site, the MS link is:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview ... efault.asp
(and no, the preceeding has not been a paid endorsement by the microsoft cooperation)
