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Rosco P Coltrane
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The vista gui was designed by monkeys, but it seems MS wants to continue
that bad tradition!
Julie Larson-Green the creator of the horrid ribbon in office 2007 is put in
charge of the windows7 gui..
YUCK!!!!! If she makes everything non customizable can someone please slap
her silly???
http://keznews.com/4924_Windows_7_Tasksbar_Multi-Monitor_Support
mug shot
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/gallery/execs/larsongreen-1.jpg
Great testimony: located at>
http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/05/30/edit-the-office-2007-ribbon-bar/
I just started a new job last week. I'd used previous versions of Office for
years, and I never had difficulty adapting whenever Microsoft came out with
a new version to replace the old version with a newer version, because the
newer versions usually retained the basic design of the older versions,
albeit with a few new features.
Not so with Office 2007. Here I'd been telling this guy that I knew Office
inside and out, during my job interview, only to find myself trying on the
first day of my new job to figure out where all of the features I was
familiar with had gone.
Thankfully, my new boss did have a high speed Internet connection, so I was
able to use Help (which is increasingly impossible to use with Microsoft
products if one is not online at the time). But I still found myself having
to look up the same things several times before I could remember how to
perform certain basic functions I'd always taken for granted before. I have
a feeling I'll be doing that for quite a few weeks before I'm really
comfortable with Office 2007.
Naturally, none of this occurred during my leisure time. It occurred in the
context of a new job, working under a microscope for a computer-illiterate
guy who wanted everything done immediately, and who had no idea of the kind
of challenge I was facing. The worst part was that when I would express
frustration with the situation, it made me look as if my previous claims
concerning my extensive computer knowledge and expertise had been
fraudulent.
Later, I noticed an ad in the bus I took home from work. It emphasized that
Office 2007 was very, very different from previous versions. That, in my
opinion, is an understatement. Microsoft seems to think that's a selling
point. I beg to differ. It might be a selling point to someone who's never
used Office before, but realistically, how many people is that? Office has
long been the default software in professional offices, and computer
professionals don't want to have to learn a new program from scratch every
time Microsoft decides to upgrade. It inhibits productivity to have to do
so.
What made things even worse was that I assumed that one would be able to
bring back the menubars simply by opening up the Options function and
choosing that particular option. From what I can tell, that is not the case.
What Microsoft should have done was to make it so that whenever one opens an
Office application, one is presented with a choice: "Do you want the new
Office 2007 interface, or the classic Office interface with a menubar?" One
of the buttons on the main tab which is shown whenever you first open the
program should say "Show Classic Menubar". For people who have used Office
for years, it's a slap in the face for the company to create a new interface
which essentially negates all of the time long-time users have spent in
learning Microsoft Office programs inside and out.
that bad tradition!
Julie Larson-Green the creator of the horrid ribbon in office 2007 is put in
charge of the windows7 gui..
YUCK!!!!! If she makes everything non customizable can someone please slap
her silly???
http://keznews.com/4924_Windows_7_Tasksbar_Multi-Monitor_Support
mug shot
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/gallery/execs/larsongreen-1.jpg
Great testimony: located at>
http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/05/30/edit-the-office-2007-ribbon-bar/
I just started a new job last week. I'd used previous versions of Office for
years, and I never had difficulty adapting whenever Microsoft came out with
a new version to replace the old version with a newer version, because the
newer versions usually retained the basic design of the older versions,
albeit with a few new features.
Not so with Office 2007. Here I'd been telling this guy that I knew Office
inside and out, during my job interview, only to find myself trying on the
first day of my new job to figure out where all of the features I was
familiar with had gone.
Thankfully, my new boss did have a high speed Internet connection, so I was
able to use Help (which is increasingly impossible to use with Microsoft
products if one is not online at the time). But I still found myself having
to look up the same things several times before I could remember how to
perform certain basic functions I'd always taken for granted before. I have
a feeling I'll be doing that for quite a few weeks before I'm really
comfortable with Office 2007.
Naturally, none of this occurred during my leisure time. It occurred in the
context of a new job, working under a microscope for a computer-illiterate
guy who wanted everything done immediately, and who had no idea of the kind
of challenge I was facing. The worst part was that when I would express
frustration with the situation, it made me look as if my previous claims
concerning my extensive computer knowledge and expertise had been
fraudulent.
Later, I noticed an ad in the bus I took home from work. It emphasized that
Office 2007 was very, very different from previous versions. That, in my
opinion, is an understatement. Microsoft seems to think that's a selling
point. I beg to differ. It might be a selling point to someone who's never
used Office before, but realistically, how many people is that? Office has
long been the default software in professional offices, and computer
professionals don't want to have to learn a new program from scratch every
time Microsoft decides to upgrade. It inhibits productivity to have to do
so.
What made things even worse was that I assumed that one would be able to
bring back the menubars simply by opening up the Options function and
choosing that particular option. From what I can tell, that is not the case.
What Microsoft should have done was to make it so that whenever one opens an
Office application, one is presented with a choice: "Do you want the new
Office 2007 interface, or the classic Office interface with a menubar?" One
of the buttons on the main tab which is shown whenever you first open the
program should say "Show Classic Menubar". For people who have used Office
for years, it's a slap in the face for the company to create a new interface
which essentially negates all of the time long-time users have spent in
learning Microsoft Office programs inside and out.
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