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by crenshaw 5385 days ago
That's right, photoshop isn't going to be going Metro anytime soon, and neither is Matlab, or Autocad, or Excel, or video editing software, or any "Pro" program (for lack of a better word).

I'd actually be surprised if there isn't a fully staffed team working on a Metro version of the Office suite.
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eykanal 5385 days ago
But what would it look like? Consider Powerpoint. There needs to be a way to switch slide layout, add elements to the slide, work with animations & transitions, reorder slides, etc. And that's just some of the things that users will want to do all the time, on almost every slide. There's just no way to have that sort of rich interface in Metro. Heck, there's not even a menubar.

Remember, we're talking about regular users, here... these people (broadly speaking) never use keyboard shortcuts. Everything needs to be clickable (touchable) with the mouse (finger).

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mtthwdrt 5385 days ago
Oh, it's definitely possible - Keynote for iPad (http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/keynote.html). No a menu bar in sight (at least, not in the traditional sense).
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masklinn 5385 days ago
> But what would it look like? Consider Powerpoint.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/keynote/id361285480

> There needs to be a way to switch slide layout, add elements to the slide, work with animations & transitions, reorder slides, etc. And that's just some of the things that users will want to do all the time, on almost every slide. There's just no way to have that sort of rich interface in Metro.

See link. It's perfectly possible to do all that without a classical menu bar. Does it do everything the desktop version does? No. Can it do pretty much everything useful of it? Sure.

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ajg1977 5385 days ago
>> Can it do pretty much everything useful of it?

No, not really. It's great for presenting, useful for making small tweaks to existing content, and painful for trying to create presentations that go beyond stuffing text in the provided templates.

This is also true of Numbers. Pages is pretty good though.

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runjake 5385 days ago
There's just no way to have that sort of rich interface in Metro.

You must've missed the "charm", sliding & docking side-windows part of the Metro demos at BUILD.

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