Re: an idiot put in charge of windows 7 gui

Hello eat this

Hasta la Vista baby, we're just not interested
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10055786-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is still playing second fiddle to XP with business users, with more enterprises confessing to checking out the unreleased Windows 7 OS than its predecessor.
Windows Vista

More than half (58 percent) of businesses using Microsoft technology are "exploiting" Windows XP compared to just 4 percent for Vista, according to the "reality checker" research by the Corporate IT Forum (Tif).

Tif's reality checker surveys help its members quickly compare the progress and position of their companies' IT against the technology choices of other members.

The group also found that 35 percent of organizations describe themselves as "not yet interested" in Vista.

The OS most people appear to be developing or piloting is Windows XP, with 12 percent of businesses saying they were doing so compared to 5 percent for Vista.

Interestingly more businesses said they're currently investigating or analyzing Microsoft's next scheduled OS, Windows 7 (30 percent), than Vista (14 percent).

In contrast, 7 percent of businesses even said they're still exploiting Windows 2000, although 19 percent said they are currently replacing or "sunsetting" it.

In April, research showed that Vista uptake among businesses was slow during 2007, although a quarter of businesses said they planned to upgrade in 2008.

The main reason given by Tif members for not moving to Vista was a lack of business requirement to do so.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 7, is having a similar battle with its predecessor, IE 6, with a fifth of respondents saying they're not yet interested in the newer version of the application.

Almost two-thirds of businesses surveyed (65 percent) said they are exploiting IE 6 compared to 4 percent for IE 7. However, 14 percent said they are currently piloting IE 7, with the same proportion using it in isolation.

Almost a quarter (23 percent) said they are analyzing and investigating IE 8, which is currently available in beta form.

"Ken" <kenmendell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ukGTH12IJHA.4600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Maybe you should date her so she'll change it to your liking.

That said, I'd barely touched a Windows computer since 1996 until last year when Vista convinced me to try, and I'm hardly the only one. Vista, I've since been told, has attracted more non-Windows users to using Windows than genearally any windows OS in years or ever. Could be true, and maybe is part of the idea. So far, I'm generally getting along well with it and it's features.

Maybe you can learn to date better. lol



"Rosco P Coltrane" <rosco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:48e2bc8e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.

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