Anyone have suggestions for significant Microsoft Office XP improvements or additions?

[Jabroni]

Anyone have suggestions for significant Microsoft Office XP improvements or additions?

My software engineering teacher wants us to prototype an improvement of Microsoft Office (XP, I would assume). I have no idea what could be improved or added to an office suite that already takes 4 CD-Roms to install?

It could be anything, but it must be significant, and it must be a popular idea, so that I can cite sources. Even a not-so-good idea that I can ?fake? enthusiasm for would be good at this point. I am desperate. I don?t want the paper, I just want ideas, so that I can write the paper myself.

Why do professors give assignments like this to students when there are teams of engineers at Microsoft that get paid to sit there and think of stuff like this already? If I had a good idea, I would probably sell it to MSFT myself

Maybe he could assign us to solve world hunger or create a system for transporting people electronically across the globe, like Star Trek?

 

[DaveSimmons]

how about:

* built in web-based clipart / photo / movie / font / template libraries support? with per-use fees instead of purchases?

this actually makes sense, since Office could link to terabytes of media from many vendors, much more than you could ever easily juggle locally even with DVD-ROMs. Also it would be updated continuously, unlike DVD-ROMs.

 

[KB]

How about less features, back to basics? Or at least an optional trimmed down version? Office XP integrates itself into everything causing plenty of problems with security and the like.

As far as functionality, maybe improved XML and HTML editing.

 

[chuckieland]

<< How about less features, back to basics? Or at least an optional trimmed down version? Office XP integrates itself into everything causing plenty of problems with security and the like.

As far as functionality, maybe improved XML and HTML editing. >>



you.....
go buy corel word perfect or star office or something
people buy office xp for it's feature and useful tool

 

[Jabroni]

Good idea on the web-based clip art and per-use fees. I think that it would be a good idea for me to write about, esp since everything os going to a .NET-based, online system...

Good idea about the XML and HTML support also.

thanks.