__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Monday 12 February 2007 19:30 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:49:14 +0000
> <1457015.czJ8iPolQA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Officious Office
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Everything you know is wrong. The old menus are gone, arrogantly
>> | abandoned without a way to get them back even as a "classic" option.
>> | Instead you see a "ribbon," a big, ugly tabbed panel of icons and
>
> Ah, so *that's* what they're calling their New, Improved GUI Option(tm).
> I'd frankly forgotten. (I'd just as soon again.)
>
>> | labels that can hog more screen space than your work and sometimes
>> | even hide it. You can minimize the ribbon, but you can't avoid it
>> | completely or go back to what you know. Just about everything is
>> | different, except for keyboard shortcuts and legacy-settings
>> | screens buried a few clicks deep.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0226/050a.html
>>
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> Bold Redesign Improves Office 2007 But Learning Curve May Be Too Steep for
>> Some Users
>
> (FSVO?)
>
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | "it requires a steep learning curve that many people might rather avoid.
>> | In my own tests, I was cursing the program for weeks"
>> `----
>>
>>
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116786111022966326-T8UUTIl2b10DaW11usf4NasZTYI_20080103.html
>>
>
> Hmph. Just get http://www.openoffice.org/ . :-)
>
> [rest snipped]
That's an argument that goes back to the release of OpenOffice 2.0. They
reiterated this pitch about cost of (re-)training and the saving costs
associated not only with OpenOffice 'licnesing', but also adaptation,
orientation, requirements, etc. A radical change (you'd find the same thing
in Vista hardware compatibility, hard migrations, cost) gives opportunity
for changes that excludes Microsoft. People resist change, but now they
stand at a crossroad/fork where the way forward is equally unattarctive
compared with the 'exit'.
--
~~ Happy Valentine's Day (Mañana)
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open
windows.
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