On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:39 AM, David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I think those sort of changes were done primarily as a response to > the rise of OpenOffice, to differentiate their product from Sun's. A new > look is a good way to help people feel better about tossing down new money > as well. The ribbon concept is good, but I think they dropped the ball by > not making it optional and they certainly didn't make it easy to program for > in Visual Studio. I also think they made an mistake defaulting to the new .x > formats ( docs, xlsx and so on) in Office. I get the xml concept and think > it's a brilliant idea, but they would have done better to not instantly > abandon a format with a decade+ of history and user comfort. ------------------------------------
Once you get over the "it is different" you find that it is better. The older version of the supporting tools got stronger in the control you have in the newer offerings from M$. I am curious, did Win95 give you the same problems and taking on that GUI word processor over WP. I have been running Vista for 2 months now and find that I don't notice it. For an OS that is a good thing right? I turn on my laptop and it runs. It am connected to the network and switching between various wireless is straight forward. What I install works. The presentation or view I have of my screen is much more crisp and the graphics kick ass over prior versions in the DISPLAY. For as many hours as I spent in purchase of a big screen TV I know for a fact that DISPLAY is pretty damn important to a lot of people instead of just myself. All my software seems to load in just fine on it. My printers are not that old and they seem to work through a network to an XP machine at home or to the network at the various clients I have. After the new year I'll be a little interested in checking out Win7 to see what it is better at. I did put Vista on a new laptop that has 2 gig of ram and a standard cpu for today. Do I think that the newer layout of everything from M$ is a sin? I find that I can find more of what I MAY want to tweak when I now have the tool ribbon open then just the older menus. There is a lot more presentation on what you can do, as well as a visual clue as to that that will look like before you commit it. Speaking about Word here. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
