Notes "Hannover" Screen-shots

Ed Brill has some screen-shots of the upcoming Lotus Notes “Hannover” interface.

So what can we make from them.

First impressions are good, it looks a lot cleaner than the current Notes implementation. They’ll hate me for saying it, but I’m struck by how similar it is to Outlook hen in the Inbox and Calendar. The issues for me with the current Notes interface have only partly been about the way it looks. Most of my frustrations are with the actions that the interface takes, the gestures. If I double-click on an attachment I want it to open, that’s what I expect. Whether these things have been fixed I don’t know because I’m just working from some screen-shots.

Perhaps I should take the time to look at the real thing.

(PS: does anyone else think that Ed Brill has to be a made up name.)