jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Mar 23 07:05:28 CDT 2009
I guess the point really is change... and the ability to get rid of the change. Imagine that you are a pilot, flying a 747. You have a lot to do to get your job done. Now Boeing brings out the latest and greatest version of the same aircraft. But everything is located in a different location. Switches that do the same thing are labeled differently. You don't get much if anything BETTER, it just LOOKS DIFFERENT. That is the point. I truly do not CARE if they relabel everything for their younger audience, just give me a switch to get rid of it all and show me the original. The original worked, in most cases it was one or several clicks LESS to get to, it was tons less GUI (crap), but most importantly, it is mostly just pretty (and inefficient) crap over the same old thing. I am not arguing that there is new stuff in Vista, there absolutely is. But the pieces of the original OS that were ported into Vista were gussied up, with no way to un-gussy them. When you are trying to fly the machine, the differences are not helpful, they are just irritating. Maaaaaaaaaaaybe if you are a brand new pilot the differences are better (though I doubt it). John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Drew Wutka wrote: >>> Answers in line > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:33 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] FMS Article on the new features in Access 2007 > > 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. > >>> This is a matter of taste. I thought the same thing from 2k to XP. > 2k, everything was more 'technically oriented', you needed to know what > you were looking for to use it. XP 'dumbed it up', so if you preferred > the direct approach, you had to switch the control panel to classic > view. However, on the plus side, if you get used to the interface, > there are some advantages. If you have a laptop, the windows mobility > screen is pretty handy. > > 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!!! > >>> It just switched the tabs to links.....whether you like it or not is a > matter of personal taste. > > 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. > >>> Not sure what you mean by this, try switching the default folder > views. > > 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. > >>> I was a little confused by this at first, but actually, it's not too > complicated. Just click the icon, and read the windows. > > 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? > >>> This may be an IP v6 issue. Try turning that protocol off. > > 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 >