> Intuitive is just another word for, in with the new, same as the old. Yes. Not long ago I was engaged in a blog comment war about climate change and one of the critics said, "The global warming alarmists refuse to engage in the debate, that's how I know it's a hoax." Since climate scientists consistently respond at length and in detail to GW critics, the decoded meaning of that comment was, "The global warming alarmists refuse to agree with me, that's how I know it's a hoax."
I see this as the sort of same thing (less sinister, to be sure). "Change isn't always good" can be decoded as "I spent months or even years memorizing where in this convoluted thing the commands I need are, so changing it is bad even if the changes make it easier to use in the long run (not to mention benefitting NEW users)." Reviewing the posts here, you'll find that very few are saying that the new interface is bad per se; the comments really come down to annoyance at having to invest some time learning the new organization. And that is understandable--but, in my view, counterproductive in the long term. (For the sake of completeness: there are other comments about Office being bloated in general, etc., but that's a different issue. I'm talking about the changed user interface, which was the original topic.) Another way to put it is that "Change isn't always good" also means "Change isn't always bad." ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
