[AccessD] Access 2007

LOL, well there must be something wrong since the whole world is not buying
in.

Vista just has a reputation of creating a ton of problems, many of them in
the Digital Rights world, many more in performance.  My understanding is
that this stuff is built into the OS itself so that a display screen that
doesn't have the digital rights stuff will just prevent Vista from
displaying anything that has digital rights stuff.  Understand that I just
read this stuff, I don't actually have it installed on any machines.  Much
of the stuff that is really important is only available to the expensive
"business" versions.  

I don't use Vista so I can't speak for or against it.  You do, so tell us,
what does Vista do for you that is the "killer app" that makes you think it
rocks?  Why would my business users (clients) pay tens of thousands of
dollars to upgrade every machine in the house?

As for Office, the ribbon bars kill all of my client's applications.  I
write databases, not toys for power users.  My clients DEMAND wall to wall
access to their display screens, and they are, TO A MAN, sitting at 800 x
600 right now.  None are willing to force their users to move up to a higher
resolution to give me more screen real estate to work with.  So my forms
EXACTLY fit an 800 x 600 screen.  Throw in a ribbon bar that cannot be
disabled and suddenly my forms have sliders and part of the form is off the
screen.

I have not found a satisfactory solution that allows me to turn off the
ribbon bars.  Microsoft has decided to FORCE me (and my clients) to show
these things.  Se la vie, I can stay with Office 2003 for the rest of my
life.  And since my clients don't use it, and since it wreaks havoc
switching from 2007 back to 2003 which I use for development, why would I
install it?

Office, and Access (and computers for that matter) are tools for getting a
job done.  Imagine that you bought a new power screwdriver and the
manufacturer suddenly decided that they would only allow you to use it to
screw things in, but couldn't use it to unscrew things.  It is a TOOL, it
has specific functionality, it is not the manufacturer's business how I use
the tool.  Wouldn't it piss you off JUST A LITTLE to have the manufacturer
suddenly tell you how you could and could not use it?

Microsoft has decided that it is their business to force my users to display
their ribbon bar.  BAD BUSINESS!!!

It really makes no difference if YOU like  it, or MICROSOFT likes it, what
matters is that MY USERS don't want it (ribbon bars), and I can't turn it
off.

So it can rock on YOUR system till the cows come home, but my clients simply
are not installing it, and I am recommending that they do not if I am asked.


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:23 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007

Hello John,

I have MS Office 2007 and Vista Ultimate on my DELL notebook - they really
rock! :)

What's wrong with them IYO? :)

--
Shamil
 
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:28 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007

Office 2007 is the Vista of the office world.  Everyone thinks it has cool
new features, no one wants to go there. 

Including me!

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com