| Post 1 | New | Posted January 8th, 2010 |
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ameer
| File. Edit. View. Tools. Help. These are words I used to see at the top of the screen. ALWAYS. Always there in some order and variation. Whenever I needed anything, I could go to the top and find what I need. Now. Why. What have you done. And WHY? To make it look better? To make it look more like the competitors? All I read, all I read from Microsoft, is that this is more 'intuitive'. What. Uh. Buh. WHAT. Word 2007. What. Where. Um. Why? I have been using Word 2007 for 3 years and I still have not become used to it. I still have to sit and stare and hunt for features that used to be right in front of my eyes. I want to spell check. Uh, References tab? I scan the top of the page with my eyes. No. Ah, Review tab. Okay, now where... Oh. On the left. Ballons? What the fuck is "Balloons"? When have I EVER used balloons? Yet it is dead center of the Review tab. Why. Ergonomics. What some man, somewhere, thinks is ergonomical. "Spell check should be on the left. Of the Review tab. Of the ribbon. Excuse me, the Ribbon". No. Spell check should be sensibly placed on a drop down menu. Clinical. Cold. Static. Unfeeling. Unchanging. Professional. Business-like. I want to park my car in a rectangle marked by yellow lines. Not in a happy dream field of flowers. I want my functions in a drop down menu. Word count. I want to count the words in my paper. Home tab of the Ribbon. Is that it? Let me hover my mouse over this unmarked visual icon for one second. No. Page Layout tab. How many words are laid out on my page. Scan with my eyes from left to right. No. References tab. For reference, let me refer to how many words refer to things on my page. No. Review tab. Scan. Okay, that might be it. Let me hover my mouse over this unmarked visual icon for one second. Yes. That is it. Visuals. Icons. Pictures. GUI. Gooey GUI's. Thank God I never need to "Set Language". The Set Language icon above the Word Count icon could be anything. If I wanted to Set Language, I might have to hover my mouse over every single icon under every single tab until I found the picture that popped up with the words Set Language. What some man somewhere thinks Set Language must look like, visually interpreted. Much more intuitive than just showing me the words Set Language in the first place, under an intelligently organized drop down menu. Double space. I need to double space things a lot. Home tab. Scan. No. Page Layout tab. Scan. Um, no. Review Tab? Scan. No. Right click out of frustration. Oh. Here pops up a drop down menu, clearly untouched and carried over from a previous version of Word. "Paragraph...". Yes, there it is. Click. Up pops a pop-up menu clearly carried over from a previous version of Word. With all functions laid out intuitively, clearly marked, and not visually represented. Windows Movie Maker. Oh my God. Renamed Windows Live Movie Maker. Okay, whatever. Maybe they have updated some of Windows Movie Maker's many downfalls. Admittedly, it was a useful and usable program. It just crashed rather easily and had very simplistic features. Um. Okay. What the fuck am I looking at. Holy shit. What the fuck. Okay, how do I get to the Timeline. Um. How do I get to the Timeline. Alright. How do I get to the Timeline. I spend five minutes Googling about how to get to the Timeline in Windows Live Movie Maker. Holy shit. Holy. Shit. There is no Timeline. They removed the Timeline to make it easier to use. To make it more intuitive. There is no Timeline. There is no Timeline. There is no Timeline. I require another five minutes to let this information sink in. There is no Timeline. I typically ignore comments posted anonymously, but one I came across in response to this new development rings true.  "It's like a baby's toy!" Sound Recorder is now far more useless than it ever has been. When I was of a single digit age, I used to play with it constantly. Playing my voice backwards. Speeding up. Slowing down. All gone. It isn't even a baby's toy anymore. But this is not about Word. Or Windows Movie Maker. Or Sound Recorder. I'm using Windows Media Player. I'm looking at my movie. The same fast-forward and rewind buttons that never work. Play/pause. Volume. Repeat. All very useful. And shuffle. Shuffe what? Shuffle the items in my playlist. What playlist? Stare. The closest mystery icon is on the bottom left of the screen. It represents Fullscreen, as I expected. The only other mystery icon is all the way at the top of the page. Three boxes and an arrow. What. Hover. "Switch to Library". Thank you. This looks a little more familiar. Except for the clear lack of features at the top. Annoyingly, the three boxes and an arrow have moved from the top, where my mouse is, to the bottom. I refuse to click that cryptic visual representation. I refuse to bow to what some man, somewhere, thought what I would suddenly find intuitive in 2007. I want something ugly, clinical, impartial, explicit, unambiguous. My eyes scan the page. Nothing. There used to be so many features cleanly laid out at the top. All gone. All scattered. All disguised. I right click. Out pops File, View, Play, Tools, Help. In a drop down menu. The things that used to be at the top, now hidden, and an extra step away behind a click. Why. ------------------  |
| Post 2 | New | Posted January 8th, 2010 |
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| Azz the barbarian. grrr 
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| Post 3 | New | Posted January 9th, 2010 |
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| Fragdieb2 just öne löuder 
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| Post 4 | New | Posted January 9th, 2010 |
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JJHW
| What are ribbons? They sound bad from name alone... ameer, you should get a Mac if you like the File etc... bar, it's always at the top of the OS no matter what program is running. ------------------  Long live the first 20 members! - I'm number 15 *duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhuhuuuhuhuhuhuhhhuuh* |
| Post 5 | New | Posted January 9th, 2010 |
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ameer
| Fragdieb2 wrote: Azz: They're already planning and coding a similar interface to MsOffice '07 for Open Office, so better hope they'll at least leave the choice to you if you want old-style menus or the stuff Microsoft calls "ribbons". I would LOVE the choice to go back to old style menus, and I don't see why you can't! There's nothing more frustrating than having this ribbon crap shoved down my throat, with no other alternative. Jerome, I'm not exactly sure what "ribbons" are defined as, but it's what I'm going to call any crap I see at the top of my screen that is NOT file/edit/view/help like any sensible pre-2007 program. Pretty much, in an effort to make computing more 'intuitive' (BULLSHIT), they replace the INFALLIBLY SIMPLE old school file/edit/etc menus at the top with stupid stupid stupid tabs consisting of bullshit categories, with all the functions represented with visual icons and scattered about randomly, instead of just simply listing the features. I doubt getting a mac would solve the problem, as I suspect this Live Intuitive Ribbon Microhappyfriendlycompany 2.0 shit is just a useless, brain-dead marketing PR scheme to make PC's seem more like Macs. ------------------ |
| Post 6 | New | Posted January 10th, 2010 |
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| DiscoFreak ROUSHCHARGED 
| for the lulz and web 2.0 ------------------  |
| Post 7 | New | Posted January 10th, 2010 |
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ameer
| They fucked up the taskbar too for Windows 7. How can you fuck up the taskbar? It was fine, and now it is more cumbersome and annoying. Just now, with Google Chrome minimized, I would have loved to open up another instance of it, but since when you click on the icon in your taskbar, it BECOMES the window, you can't click on the icon again to open another instance of it, so I had to go to my Start menu to find it. ------------------ |
| Post 8 | New | Posted January 10th, 2010 |
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| DiscoFreak ROUSHCHARGED
| tabs, motherfucker. do you use them? ------------------ |
| Post 9 | New | Posted January 10th, 2010 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard 
| Bookmarked. ------------------
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| Post 10 | New | Posted January 10th, 2010 |
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| DiscoFreak ROUSHCHARGED
| Go take a shower, Cerb. ------------------ |
| Post 11 | New | Posted January 10th, 2010 |
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| That Shit Touge ^____________^;; 
| My washings became more frequent in January 2010 as a result of opinion data collected from observers! ------------------  STORY OF MY LIFE: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 |
| Post 12 | New | Posted January 11th, 2010 |
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| Fragdieb2 just öne löuder
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| Post 13 | New | Posted January 11th, 2010 |
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orange juice
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| Post 14 | New | Posted February 24th, 2010 |
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ameer
| Okay guys seriously... fucking Sound Recorder. I bought a cheap microphone for school and went to Sound Recorder to test it out. It DOES have a REALLY rudimentary jumping bar to let me know that it is working (instead of the super cool wave scope from when I was a kid), but guess what... YOU CAN'T PLAY BACK YOUR RECORDING WITHOUT SAVING IT FIRST. That adds a ridiculously unnecessary step to what should be very simple. ------------------ |
| Post 15 | New | Posted February 24th, 2010 |
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JJHW
| Once again... OS X comes with Garageband, which is even good enough to do quick band demos... Is there a PC version of Reaper? It's a free Garaband/Logic/Cubase sort of thing. Would probably be useful. ------------------ Long live the first 20 members! - I'm number 15 *duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhuhuuuhuhuhuhuhhhuuh* |
| Post 16 | New | Posted February 24th, 2010 |
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| Fragdieb2 just öne löuder
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| Post 17 | New | Posted February 25th, 2010 |
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| Needles Drinks Fucking Tea!
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| Post 18 | New | Posted February 28th, 2010 |
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| That Shit Touge ^____________^;;
| Typical that an Apple Mac would come with something called "Garageband". I imagine the video editing application is called "Snowboarding Twats" and the photo albums are under "Men In Rupert The Bear Outfits". ------------------ STORY OF MY LIFE: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 |
| Post 19 | New | Posted February 28th, 2010 |
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| Fragdieb2 just öne löuder
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| Post 20 | New | Posted February 28th, 2010 |
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Dan Wei
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