On 26 Sep 2008 09:22:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pinnacle) wrote: >I just got a new ThinkPad with Microsoft Windows Vista installed. The >culture shock has been enough that I felt compelled to post this. One of >Conley's Corollaries is that "No PC software upgrade is complete until the >user interface has been entirely rewritten." Never was that corollary more >true than with Windows Vista. The interface, while visually stunning, bears >little resemblance to any Windows operating system preceding it. Standard >system utilities are completely different, and located in completely >different places. THEY TOOK THE MENU BAR! THE WHOLE F'ING MENU BAR! >(quick, somebody throw me a fifth of JD). This change alone is staggering. >The menu bar has been there for 20 years, and now poof! It's gone with a >wave of Bill's mighty hand. I can't begin to imagine how many BILLIONS, if >not TRILLIONS of dollars in lost productivity are going to be flushed down >the toilet when corporations around the world roll out this POS. And we'll >all just take it like the lemmings we are.
My only use of Vista is using Remote Desktop to a shared Vista machine. Sure it's different, but not as hard to learn as Office 2007. (I did uninstall the SEARCH feature in my XP Taskbar, and wish I could do the same with Outlook 2007's "enhanced" search functions). But I'm not figuring out what you mean by taking the menu bar. I see a task bar, and I see my applications' menu bars (which I prefer to the single menu bar for multiple Macintosh applications). But I see users moving from 3270 based applications to web based applications, relearning their processes. I see printed reports becoming less common. (We've eliminated printed bills which is a great savings). Things are changing whether we like it or not. Not all changes make sense - hopefully this is a time to evaluate which ones do make sense. And either choose our direction or accept what comes anyway. We know the future isn't 3270 terminals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
