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[Martin_1962]

Is horrible, got a new work PC using Windows 7 and lots of programmes on it are missing the file edit menu.

I wanted to access news groups, found something called windows live mail, no sign of how to set it up. No menus just 3 buttons - WHAT IS THE POINT!

Now checking Mozilla to see what they do.

I occasionally use MS Office - the version on this also is short of menus, luckily I managed to fix Word, I very rarely use any of them.

Aghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why change everything!!??

[Sixstring]

IMHO "if it aint broke, don't fix it".

[Chris_H]

Is horrible, got a new work PC using Windows 7 and lots of programmes on it are missing the file edit menu.

I wanted to access news groups, found something called windows live mail, no sign of how to set it up. No menus just 3 buttons - WHAT IS THE POINT!

Now checking Mozilla to see what they do.

I occasionally use MS Office - the version on this also is short of menus, luckily I managed to fix Word, I very rarely use any of them.

Aghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why change everything!!??

To make money Martin.

Sorry.

[Chris_H]

IMHO "if it aint broke, don't fix it".

In MS's case...

If it IS broke then FIX it!!!

[Kevin Wood]

Why change everything!!??

Because the teenagers they employ to write software think it's "cool" to change things that aren't broke, rather then fix the glaring bugs that have been there since the first version of Word.

Rumour was that OpenOrifice were working on a "me too" knee-jerk ribbon GUI, so I might have to bin that soon. http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/08/06/openoffice-org-demos-ribbon-style-ui-prototype/

Kevin

[Martin_1962]

Ended up downloading Thunderbird to do newsgroups

[zirk]

Ended up downloading Thunderbird to do newsgroups

Stick with Thunderbird, its a good old fashion Outlook Exprees App with some added features, Live Mail is rubbish.
 

[Dishevelled Den]

Yes, I must admit that the apparent need for constant change confuses me greatly.

I was quite content with the Third programme and the Home Service then, sadly, everything went tits-up.

[Mr Skrunts]

So really - what you're all sating is quite simple.

They should have stayed with windows 3.11

or stayed with windows 95
or even windows 98

maybe XP should never have been invented
or even windows 2000 or indeed before that.

Seems vista was a mistake - but based on your above theory they would never have created windows 7


But Martin - remember this, they are not forcing you to use thier softwarem they are meerly giving you choices. 


I personaly never tush into a new OS.

Never wanted to stray from DOS games, my mate forced me into trying win 3.11, was ok.  he then got me to try win 95, with this I suffered my first ever virus.

Went on to win98, also tried millenium, quite like the way it could be tweaked into doing a superfast defrag, sad really.

Eventually moved on to XP Pro and still am using it.

Never bothered with Vista allthough I did recently purchase a laptop off a member due to an upgrade and it has vista, had a quik look but thats about it.

Personally without microsoft "Changeing things" I didnt know what I wanted till they upgraded it for me.

[eddie]

If you want newsgroups try Pan..

http://pan.rebelbase.com/

Its free and cross platform (unix and windows).

eddie

[TheBoy]

LOL. They do it to make it easier for most.  Yes, some with over inflated egos, and some lacking capacity to accept change will say they hate it, but virtually everyone I know says the new style is easier.  And all those who use it regularly will complain the old XP/Office 2003 way is cumbersome. Except Mrs TheBoy, who hates Word 2007/2010 with a passion, que above comments


Stick with it, its far easier once you 'get' the Vista way of doing things.

[Dishevelled Den]

LOL. They do it to make it easier for most.  Yes, some with over inflated egos, and some lacking capacity to accept change will say they hate it, but virtually everyone I know says the new style is easier.  And all those who use it regularly will complain the old XP/Office 2003 way is cumbersome. Except Mrs TheBoy, who hates Word 2007/2010 with a passion, que above comments


Stick with it, its far easier once you 'get' the Vista way of doing things.

They do it to make it easier for most.

They certainly made it easy for me - with other button pushers, GUI gazers and dialogue box followers - to enter a mysterious world previously known only to those disciples of the incomprehensible.

I thank Microsoft every day for that.

[tunnie]

i hate word 2007 with a passion, but that stems from Uni days when i had to get 150 page project documentation compatible with 2003 & 7.

Option menus from are a pig, often greyed out tabs on popup boxes that need to be closed and go through a series of other sub menus just to get back to the same popup 

[M]

We got a lovely new laptop yesterday and are finding it difficult getting used to everything, at least with my old web book it was all straight forward

 

[cem_devecioglu]

There is no way of satisfying everyone.. :-/

However working with an army of teams (of programmers, testers) and satisfaction surveys
on users Microsoft is trying their best imo..

But gathering usage and test information from numerous users I'm afraid Microsoft fall in the trap
of running after millions of details which makes
their software extremely detailed even for a programmer