Image talk:Microsoft Word 2003.png

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Improvements over the old image:

• No blue theme
• Smaller and clearer
• No draw toolbar (clutter)
• Encompasses the entire window frame
• More useful file name
• Proper extension

—Kbolino 05:10, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] On the new version (22-Oct)

To the person who uploaded the image:

1. Please read the talk page, if one exists, before replacing an image.
2. The XP theme is crap. XP is crap. Personal opinion, yes, but it looks so unprofessional. The standard Windows look at most businesses and schools is Windows 2000-like. It's simpler, cleaner, and gray.
3. Please use the necessary advpng/optipng/pngrewrite/pngout/pngcrush utility combination to produce the smallest image size possible.

—Kbolino 20:27, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Are we showing a picture of how we think Word should look or how it initially looks to the user? DHN 19:00, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Explain to me, if you will, how keeping the image simple does not express how it initially looks to the user? When I start Word at home, school, or on my dad's computer it looks like the picture I've given. Which is to say that on Windows 2000 (or Windows XP with "themes" disabled, as in the latter two cases), Word 2003 as it installs by default looks like what I've given. Windows XP with a visual theme is not the most common operating system in the environments where Word is most used.—Kbolino 23:05, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

I agree that the classic theme looks better, but that's hardly the point... to date, the vast majority of computer users, especially in offices where Windows XP is used even less, tend to use a classic skin. Users are far more likely to have seen the classic skin and be familiar with it than with the XP skin. Please, unless there is a good reason for changing an image from the one that was there originally, leave it alone!--Christopher 22:34, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

I updated the image, and I promise I read this page beforehand. I compressed the PNG to 31 kb, so that shouldn't be an issue. This skin looks much more professional than the normal XP theme, I think. It's mainly white, so it looks more like the classic Windows theme. If you really don't think it's suitable, revert it, and post your reasons here. TheArmadillo 23:51, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

The screenshot I uploaded of Microsoft Office Word 2003 under Windows XP was how the product is viewed after installation with all the default settings, both of Microsoft Windows XP and of Microsoft Office Word 2003. The statement that "Windows XP with a visual theme is not the most common operating system in the environments where Word is most used" is a bit tenuous, considering Word is used so widely on home PCs (and most home computer owners don't twiddle with their computers' settings beyond changing the desktop wallpaper). I felt perfectly entitled to change the image to what I did considering the only place this image was used (on the Word article) it had a big "Office Word 2003 under Windows XP" caption. If we are using the classic scheme then there is nothing to distinguish it from, say, a screenshot of it under Windows 2000 or Windows 98, even (if it installs in that operating system). I would have appreciated being notified of this image reversion as well, rather than a note to "the person who uploaded the image" on this talk page. - Mark 12:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Surely uploading an image of Word using the Media Center style, one even more marginalised than other styles, defeats the point? There are bigger things to worry about admittedly! - but wasn't the reason we were sticking with the Classic theme because it was the most ubiquitously recognisable Windows theme at present? 99.9% of computer users will never have seen the Media Center style, and it looks out of place. --86.131.52.242 21:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Way too much copyrighted material

This screenshot includes copyrighted material from Codename: Kids Next Door and a presumably copyrighted letter. It ought to be deleted and replaced with a different image that does not contain such copyrighted material. —Remember the dot (t) 19:14, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Done. This screenshot has a dual license. Can you tell why has a copyright material from Codename: Kids Next Door shown on the desktop background? (It might be is a distracting background). Jigs41793 ^Talk/_contribs 13:31, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I believe the user just had their desktop set up that way and captured the background along with Microsoft Word. —Remember the dot (t) 05:41, 1 March 2007 (UTC)