Office 2007 Beta 2 screenshots

In a guest blog posting that also appeared today on MSDN, Microsoft's product design manager for the Office Design Group, Brad Weed, noted the removal of the controversial button tabs that deluged the early design. Weed both defended them and knocked them in the same stroke, by writing, "That whole [tab] experiment was largely my fault. You see, my name is Brad and I have a tab problem. I was really hopeful that we could innovate in this area. Tabs just seem so... 90's."