[Shacs] If you must deal with the Evil Empire...

[Bronius Motekaitis]

Oh-- is _that_ what that series of buttons is across the top of the
interface is for?
Of course the items on the menu are there-- it's just that the menus have
been presented in one single, now standard way for so long, and then in one
big, sudden sweep, the menu system was completely changed.  It's like having
the rug pulled out from under me.  My 2 yr old loves that feeling (pulling
the rug out from under him), but it's a productivity killer.

I suppose I am dissatisfied with microsoft's opinion of what is most common
[for me].  They have taken a single (or couple) cluttered toolbar(s) where
everything is right in front of me, and they've compartmentalized it all
into chunks which still aren't 100% intuitive to me.  I guess I don't see it
as clutter if I know where to find info, and I don't find compartments
convenient if I can't reliably assume into which compartment a given
operation lives.

Also, that live fonts thing is annoying to me.  Great concept, annoying
feature to get used to (in an Office product).

Nice diagram.

-bronius


On 10/25/07, Peter Seale <peter at pseale.com> wrote:
>
>  LUDICROUS! My formal rebuttal [PNG format] is attached to this message.
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> While we're here, did anyone notice Microsoft's releasing a new MVC web
> framework<http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx>[it's a link, click it]? My take on this is that
> *while Microsoft's new MVC framework is not breaking new ground*, and is
> not by any means technically superior to other popular web frameworks (Rails
> Django etc), it has one advantage--big companies will adopt this framework
> when they won't touch the open frameworks. All this means: paying jobs!
>
>
>
> That's my summary anyway.  -Peter
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>
> *From:* shacs-bounces at shsu.edu [mailto:shacs-bounces at shsu.edu] *On Behalf
> Of *Bronius Motekaitis
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:33 PM
> *To:* SHACS
> *Subject:* Re: [Shacs] If you must deal with the Evil Empire...
>
>
>
> I think you, I, and the rest of known civilization share the same
> sentiment regarding M$O 2007:
> http://www.bronius.com/node/50
>
> I wonder if you can by Office 2007 on the cheap as referenced below and
> downgrade for free?  :)  (actually, student Microsoft products really are
> cheap...)
>
> -bronius
>
> On 10/25/07, *Dr. Tim McGuire* <mcguire at shsu.edu> wrote:
>
> You can get the full version of MS-Office 2007 (which I have grown to
> loathe more than Office 2003, incidentally, but that's another story)
> directly from the Evil Empire of Micro$oft itself at the following site:
> http://www.theultimatesteal.com/
>
> All you need is an student email address ending in .edu and $60.
>
> --
> Timothy J. McGuire, Ph.D.
> Department of Computer Science
> Sam Houston State University
> Huntsville, Texas  77341-2090
> (936)294-1571   mcguire at shsu.edu        http://www.shsu.edu/~csc_tjm/<http://www.shsu.edu/%7Ecsc_tjm/>
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