If this is a sign of things to come, why not move to Linux?

If this is such a great idea, why is Apple not rushing to copy it? I am relieved to hear the corporate world is shunning it.

On the other hand, I know someone who I expected to dislike Office 2007. I was amazed when she said she had already tried it out and had taken it up. She was keen to learn all the new way of working. Extraordinary. So I made sure she knew how to set the Word 2007 option to always save in Word 97-2003 format by default, so as to not annoy everyone else, and left it at that.

I think Office 2007 is an example of the danger of usability labs. The trouble with usability labs is that people try to be nice. Remember, in tests at Microsoft, everybody surveyed said Clippy the paperclip was “a nice thing to have”.

And very true about the reasons behind the redesign. I can just imagine this meeting:

Some director is ecstatically explaining the UI. Suddenly, a young low ranking executive interjects by asking: “But won’t the users be upset by this change?”

The room gets quiet and everyone stares at the young guy with a confused look on their face. “Whow gets what now?”.

“The users… Our customers. The people we are making this software for.”

Unblinking, confused stare continues. Steve Ballmer gets nervous and throws a chair at someone not really knowing what to make of it. Bill Gates stops counting money for a second, but then resumes.

The director starts up his spiel about the new UI as if nothing happened.

The meeting continues.

I have been fighting on how to create a SIMPLE graphic out of a table for a couple of hours now, and can’t get the horizontal series to show correctly. This after trying to fix my simple report that worked on Access, and is broken now. Help does not help either………..

Maybe I have a problem: all this supposedly “intuitive” interface does not work for someone in the late 30’s like me. Maybe I am just plain dumb, although I redid my IQ test and it confirmed I am still at 140 (a good one if you ask me) but I feel like I am at 80 and needing special care when dealing with the new UI.

All that I was trying to do was trivial in Office 2003 and before. I guess I will just have to reinstall my previous Office versions.

And BTW, I work for Microsoft. This might come as a shocker. This post is my venting, I don’t care anymore.

Oh, HOW I HATE THIS NEW UI!

And as for your question on “why fucking fix it if it aín’t broke”, there is a Pink Floyd called “Have a Cigar” that has the answer: “And did we tell you the name of the game, boy, we call it riding the Gravy Train”…..

So switching to volume licensing is one of my long term plans. Still have to convince the mgmt that this is the right way to go, and write up some estimates to show that we either save money or increase productivity, or whatnot. Sigh.

maybe it can save you some $$$.

The point is that every time you are trying to do something, you have to go “oh man, where did they put that function now?”

God, I hate Microsoft so much right now…

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