[LINK] Even thieves don't want Vista

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Ivan Trundle wrote:
> On 01/09/2008, at 2:41 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> 
>> Yes, this *is* a complaint about "getting to know Office". It's an
>> extremely mundane program - WP, spreadsheet and presentations - and
>> there's no good excuse to say to users "we want you to do things our  
>> way
>> and if you don't like it, tough, because we're ditching the menus and
>> we're ditching the macros". In this, at least, I feel no compunction
>> calling on the cliche that "the customer is always right": why  
>> should I
>> change my ways of working, just because someone in the design office  
>> got
>> bored with menus?
> 
> I tried a Google search for "Microsoft Office 2007 usability" and the  
> response was 'No results found for "Microsoft Office 2007 usability".  
> Fair enough. Without the quotes, once you get past the MS shills, some  
> interesting gems surface about their 'Microsoft Office Fluent' UI.
> 

and don't even try compatibility. Today, I received this reply, after bothering
to convert a document to Word. Open Office opened the original document - they 
sent me.

> Unfortunately I can't read your attachment. I'm on the new windows 2007.
> Any chance you could send me a text version in the body of the e mail?
> 

though if the outcome is that people stop using word attachements where text in 
a body of an email would suffice - this is a good outcome.

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Marghanita da Cruz
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