Icon Matchgame
Jensen Harris announced the new Office application icons (hat tip: J-Walk).
Here’s a list of products from the sidebar at Office Online
Access
Communicator
Excel
FrontPage
InfoPath
Live Meeting
Microsoft Office Live
OneNote
Outlook
PowerPoint
Project
Publisher
Small Business Accounting
Visio
Word
Without even trying, I identified Excel (C2), Word (A1), Access (B2), and Outlook (C1). I’m pretty confident about OneNote (A4) and Powerpoint (A2), but not 100%. Note that there are three more products than there are icons.
Pragmatic Cynic:
It looks to me that powerpoint is C3 and Visio is A2.
27 July 2006, 8:34 amMichael:
Project — C4
Amazin’ that us XL types broke the locating code so fast
…mrt
27 July 2006, 8:51 amMike:
cool! Pac-Man @ C3!!
27 July 2006, 10:07 amAlex J:
Anybody for R1C1 notation?
27 July 2006, 10:39 ambobb2622:
I was thinking that Visio is A2, not Powerpoint. I think Powerpoint is C3. Publisher is probably B3.
On a side note, I love the blog and usually just read the articles, but I had to respond to the pretty pictures.
27 July 2006, 12:07 pmpdekraaij:
I would say:
Word/InfoPath/Outlook
Visio/Access/Excel
SB Accounting/Publisher/PowerPoint
OneNote/Groove/Project
PS: I like the design, but doesn’t it look a bit retro??
27 July 2006, 12:25 pmHarald Staff:
R3C3 is Pacman 2007.
27 July 2006, 1:10 pmJason B:
pdekraaij, you are a logo decoder ring genius! PS what is Groove? They continue the cartoonification of icons and overall MS look-and-feel that’s been going on for a while. As to the retro remark, they perhaps are a bit art deco inspired.
-Jason
27 July 2006, 2:21 pmross:
Good God Dick! Power Point A2! Go out side a beat yourself with a Birch thingy!
P.S, what does it mean that we’re discussing the Icons of the new office! Not going to win any cool awards me thinks!
27 July 2006, 2:38 pmDick Kusleika:
“Good God Dick! Power Point A2! Go out side a beat yourself with a Birch thingy!”
That must have been pre-Pib Zero this morning, I don’t know what I was thinking. After reading pdekraaij’s comment, most of them actually make sense - although I still don’t think I could have got them on my own. I don’t even know what InfoPath and Groove are, so their logo’s could have been a pig snout and it would have the same meaning to me.
27 July 2006, 2:44 pmpdekraaij:
hi Jason, Groove enables you to share files, manage projects in a team etc. That’s pretty much all I know
For more info check out the website: http://www.groove.net
-Patrick
27 July 2006, 3:17 pmMike Alexander:
The Project icon (the bottom right) looks like two thumbs down.
27 July 2006, 3:40 pmAt least I hope its the Project icon and not the overall Office icon.
Jon Peltier:
Mike -
“The Project icon (the bottom right) looks like two thumbs down.”
That was my first impression, as well.
27 July 2006, 7:39 pmsam:
My first impression is Uuuuk…Uuuk…and Uuuk ….Again they tried to fix something that wasnt broken….
Kind of OT :
27 July 2006, 9:49 pmMy favourite splash screens was the one that came with Word 6 (Feather Pen…Ink…) and Excel 5 (Calculations ….)…wonder if any one remembers