New Office 12 screenshots

Activewin has posted screenshots from the latest build of Microsoft Office 12, for your viewing pleasure.

Google Reader (mini review)

Yet another release from the labs at Google, comes Google Reader, a web-based RSS feed syndicator.

Here are some of the initial issues I noted:

• UI feels slow and choppy (especially transition effects - YMMV)
• Subscribe button does not always work (I'm still trying to figure out when it does work)
• Attempts to subscribe to RSS feeds from sites like theregister.com or theinquirer.net failed. I have already subscribed to 4 feeds (maybe there is a limitation right now)

Here's the good part:

• User experience (look and feel) similar to GMail
• Same keyboard shortcuts as GMail (what they don't mention is that pressing 'o' opens a feed or feed item to reveal its snippet text)
• Conveniently unsubscribe to a feed
• Conveniently "Blog This!" (to your Blogger account) or GMail this (self-explanatory)
• Label your RSS subscriptions (similar to labeling your mail in GMail)
• Export/Import Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) files
• All the usual sorting capabilities

The Germans must be crazy...

...but wait, everyone already knows that!

One is at a loss for words when one sees works of art (for lack of a better term) like this. A serious drool warning for Sukhoi fanatics is in order.