[AccessD] Poll on Access 2007

John,

I am very sorry, I have obviously misunderstood you. When you said "the 
developer environment that got totally screwed around", I thought you were 
referring to the "silly friggin toolbar".  As a result of which, I though 
you'd gone balmy kicking up such a fuss about such a little thing.  So I 
apologise for the misunderstanding.  I have seen a lot of people focus on 
the ribbon as the thing about Access 2007 to whine about, and I'm afraid I 
jumped to conclusions and lumped you in with that lot.  Sorry.

Now, what *do* you mean by "the developer environment"?

Regards
Steve


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From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 4:19 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Poll on Access 2007

> Steve,
>
> You still aren't listening.  I don't CARE about the ribbon (except how to 
> turn it off).  I care
> about the stupid crap you have to jump through to be a developer.  The 
> needless rearrangement of the
> entire environment.
>
> I repeat, YOU (and MS) AREN'T LISTENING.  My clients hire me to develop 
> applications.  Toolbars are
> for power users to interact with OFFICE AS THE APPLICATION, not to 
> interact with an application
> based on Access.  My clients don't use icons AT ALL.  They are in forms, 
> they enter data IN FORMS,
> they run reports.  They interact with the APPLICATION that I develop, not 
> with ACCESS.
>
> YOU (and MS) AREN'T LISTENING TO ME (or anyone else on this list or the 
> developer world at large).
>
> LISTEN STEVE, GET WHAT I SAY.
>
> My clients have APPLICATIONS which fill the entire screen.  I have been 
> asking my clients to FORCE
> their users to move up to 1024 x 768.  They are STUCK at 800 x 600.  They 
> have gone out and bought
> bigger screens, ALL of their screens are now at least 17" (up from 14" and 
> 15") many are 19" but
> their users want the extra size to help them SEE better, not give the 
> application more screen real
> estate.  Now Access comes along and spends a ton of time and resources on 
> a stupid toolbar which (If
> I developed there) I would PROMPTLY turn off because my forms take up the 
> entire screen as it is.
>
> Steve, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that the toolbar is 
> simply irrelevant.  NONE of my
> clients care, at all.  Not even one little bit.  If they don't care, I 
> don't care.
>
> And yet obviously it is the world to you (and MS)?  Obviously YOU like it? 
> Because while we have
> been discussing EVERYTHING EXCEPT the toolbar, the toolbar is the only 
> thing you will discuss.  Not
> the bug list that never gets addressed.  Not the developer environment 
> that got totally screwed
> around.   Not Microsoft's arrogant "we don't give a damn what the 
> developers are saying" attitude.
>
> THE SILLY FRIGGIN TOOLBAR!
>
> I am not surmising anything, it is totally irrelevant to me.  My clients 
> aren't asking me to do 2007
> and so I am not.  Access 2007 is being positioned as a "power toy" and I 
> am a developer.  Access
> 2007 is all about pretty tool bars that don't matter.
 


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