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

[Jared Lobberecht]

Productivity and annoyance are in the eye of the person emailing the guy,
via Blackberry, to sign the checks. 

 

I use to be more idealistic. Perhaps I have had too much Kool-Aid, and now
have diabetes.

 

Jared

 

 

From: shacs-bounces at shsu.edu [mailto:shacs-bounces at shsu.edu] On Behalf Of
Bronius Motekaitis
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 6:51 AM
To: SHACS
Subject: Re: [Shacs] If you must deal with the Evil Empire...

 

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.asp
x>  [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

 

 

From: shacs-bounces at shsu.edu [mailto: <mailto:shacs-bounces at shsu.edu>
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



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