Comments on: Icon Matchgame

By: sam

sam — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:49:00 +0000

My first impression is Uuuuk…Uuuk…and Uuuk ….Again they tried to fix something that wasnt broken….

Kind of OT :
My favourite splash screens was the one that came with Word 6 (Feather Pen…Ink…) and Excel 5 (Calculations ….)…wonder if any one remembers

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:39:00 +0000

Mike -

"The Project icon (the bottom right) looks like two thumbs down."

That was my first impression, as well.

By: Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:40:00 +0000

The Project icon (the bottom right) looks like two thumbs down.
At least I hope its the Project icon and not the overall Office icon.

By: pdekraaij

pdekraaij — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:17:00 +0000

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

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:44:00 +0000

"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.

By: ross

ross — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:38:00 +0000

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!

By: Jason B

Jason B — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:21:00 +0000

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

By: Harald Staff

Harald Staff — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:10:00 +0000

R3C3 is Pacman 2007.

By: pdekraaij

pdekraaij — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:25:00 +0000

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??

By: bobb2622

bobb2622 — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:07:00 +0000

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.