From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Lately I haven't forgiven Microsoft for taking 'Display' out of Control
Panel and putting it in 'Personalize' in Vista.  Several months ago during
a beta I cursed their name quite a bit when I wanted to change screen res

"John Beckett"  wrote in message
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> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news::
>> Microsoft has decided to replace the menu/toolbar with the
>> ribbon design and forcefeed us the ribbon paradigm.
>
> While I totally agree that a lot of Microsoft's stuff in recent years has
> been totally irritating, we need some reality checks here.
>
> I know several people who instinctively change the XP Start menu to
> "classic" (or whatever it's called - the result is that the XP desktop
> looks more like Windows 2000). Frankly, the majority of these people are
> idiots. If they put a tiny amount of effort into figuring out what the XP
> Start menu does they would realise that the new stuff has many benefits.
> At least they would be making an informed decision if they wanted to
> switch it to classic.
>
> I remember the months of whining that went on when File Manager was
> replaced with Explorer. OMG - you have to have two instances of Explorer
> open to do some of the stuff you could do in File Manager! I bet the chief
> whiners would be totally lost if they were now confronted with File
> Manager - OMG I can't do a Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+X) followed by a Ctrl+V
> somewhere else!
>
> In fact, I remember the whining that went on when Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V etc were
> chosen as the new shortcuts for copy/paste. Again, Microsoft has been
> proven to be correct. They recognised that Ctrl+C etc were better than
> Ctrl+Ins etc, and tore up the old rule book.
>
> So, whereas I dread confronting the "ribbon" when I finally upgrade, I
> know that it should get a fair trial before being discarded.
>
> We won't know for another six months of so whether the change in IE menus
> is good or bad, or whether the ribbon in Office is clever or stupid.
>
> John
>

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