{"id":461,"date":"2006-11-06T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2006\/11\/06\/newsletter-362-preview-the-leopard-report-should-apple-tinker-with-the-interface\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T06:14:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:14:12","slug":"newsletter-362-preview-the-leopard-report-should-apple-tinker-with-the-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2006\/11\/newsletter-362-preview-the-leopard-report-should-apple-tinker-with-the-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #362 Preview: <br\/>The Leopard Report: Should Apple Tinker with the Interface?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may have heard, Microsoft has been making an effort to be a trifle innovative in the user interface of Internet Explorer 7 and the forthcoming Office 2007 for Windows. 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