To Come Clunky as it is, the second beta of Office 10 is clearly not the last stop before Microsoft releases the first user version. Certainly we'll be having later and later builds of Office 10, but it's not clear whether we'll have something that's called Beta 3. The company will be getting user feedback, and Microsoft will continue to make improvements for months, he says. Microsoft will be paying particular attention to improving the user interface and making the product more robust between now and the commercial release, according to Jaffe. Drop-down feature lists among Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint do not have the same features in the same places.
Publisher further complicates the matter.