[AccessD] FMS Article on the new features in Access 2007

Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 16:40:55 CDT 2009


That's a no for you then John - ?

Max


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:33 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> Charlotte,
>
>  > That and anything I can't change to a classic style so I can find what
> I'm looking for.
>
> This is what I dislike the most.  I have Vista installed on my laptop and
> have used it for about two
> years now.  And I still hate it.  Everything is moved, everything is wizard
> driven.  Just give me
> the damned control to do things.  I know what is happening under it all, it
> is mostly exactly the
> same stuff, but there is a layer of CRAP over everything preventing me from
> directly getting at it.
>  And the CRAP is not an improvement.
>
> Go to the desktop.  Right click. A "browser looking" thingie comes up with
> a ton of different things
> I can do.  All I want to do is change the display settings.  So I click
> Display settings.  A
> "display settings" dialog comes up but it doesn't have all of the stuff
> right there, I have to dig.
>
> C'mon already!!!
>
> Open explorer.  What the HELL is this thing?  I come up in Documents inside
> of JWColby.  I am
> CONSTANTLY minimizing documents so that I can even SEE jwcolby so that I
> can minimize that so that I
> can see my system and the disk drives.
>
> C'mon already.
>
> I didn't ask for this!!!
>
> Where in the heck is the NIC stuff hidden?  I have to search for ten
> minutes EVERY time I want to
> look at that stuff.  It is buried down three levels in a completely
> unfamiliar looking dialog.
>
> Why does my Win2K3 machine's browser service find all the machines on my
> network just fine
> (including the vista machines) but the vista machines ONLY find each other
> reliably?
>
> Go to Programs / Accessories.  Where did Communications go?  Where did
> entertainment go?  What is
> the point of rearranging these very common menus and hiding this stuff
> somewhere else?
>
> It is the same old "let's make it so simple that a 5 year old can use it",
> but... it takes 17 layers
> of crap to make it that simple so that NOBODY can figure it out any more.
>
> It is just frustrating!  And I have been using it for a LONG time now!!!
>
> Part of the problem is that I continue to use Win2K3 for my servers and XP
> on other machines, so I
> continue to see and use the old "do it yourself" interface, which just
> makes it more jarring when I
> have to go do the same thing on Vista.
>
> I am reasonably certain that if Vista was all there was I would learn how
> to do things "the Vista
> way" and eventually be fine with it.  In the meantime I just want the Vista
> way to go away.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>
> Charlotte Foust wrote:
> > I think the fairy godmother twinkle is what I hate most about Vista.
> > That and anything I can't change to a classic style so I can find what
> > I'm looking for.
> >
> > Charlotte Foust
>
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