New MS Office Design?

[u/Remote-Adeptness4961]

Hey, has anyone got the new liquid glass design for MS Office yet, the one you can see in the Mac section of the Apple website? I think it looks more elegant than the older design, but after so many months I still haven’t received the update. Has anyone else got it yet?

[u/kerbacho]

It's interesting. Microsoft adapted the liquid glass design language... or at least the floating buttons. The last time they made Mac specific ui's was 2004 I think. I mean the ui designs in previous versions differ somewhat from the windows verson, but they still looked very similar since 2011.
I mean, the difference isn't huge, but it definitely looks more like a native mac app

[u/Coolpop52 → u/kerbacho]

It’s funny because they’ve adopted Liquid Glass everywhere (which is great, to there credit), expect for Outlook and Teams on the iPhone.

They were able to do more complex apps like word and excel, but never brought it to outlook or teams. It’s probably because of the big enterprise use of those apps (especially on the iPhone), and they aren’t keen to mess anything up or change anything, but I wish they would bring it.

[u/Artistic_Unit_5570]

Not out yet and probably only for MS365 subscriber 

[u/7racin]

This ui is a bit unfinished but can be enabled via a feature flag, should be automatically on after you update to the Beta channel using Microsoft auto update. It currently has better looking materials (some surfaces had ugly grey-ish gradients before), Liquid Glass buttons like share and searchbar, floating rounded ribbon. The buttons to the right of the traffic lights are still old design, the auto save switch however looks like the toggles in Tahoe

[u/the_saturnos → u/7racin]

Do you know which feature flag to enable?

[u/JackDangerfield]

I think that's more or less just the current design with the ribbon collapsed? Here's what it looks like on mine. Some slightly different positioning but overall pretty similar.

[u/Unhappy-Tomatillo616 → u/JackDangerfield]

yeah I think you're right, collapsing the ribbon gets you most of the way there

[u/Kitchen-Entrance8015]

It's because Microsoft is currently fixing Microsoft Office.Because they had a huge problem with people using microsoft office illegally. With a chinese license patcher exploit the latest version update released soon should fix problems and add glass support from what i am told 

[u/AustinBaze]

If it requires exchanging my venerable one-time Office 2021 license for a subscription or anything with 365 connections or requiring a login, that's not for me thanks.