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

Interesting analogy, though I think it's an invalid comparison.

When Boeing comes out with a new plane, they can do whatever they want
with capabilities and controls, because it's a device that specially
trained people use.  So their market is trained people that would train
on a new system if needed.

Microsoft, on the other hand, has a very wide range of customers to deal
with, from the highly technical (the ones that know what's going on in
the machine language) to people that just want email, and everything in
between.  By far, one of the best OSes that MS has ever come out with
was Windows 2000.  It was the greatest leap of any of the generations.
But it's major flaw, is that it didn't have the 'user fuzzy feeling'ness
of Windows 98/ME.  XP did that.  XP did VERY little that Windows 2k
didn't already do.  Other then the look and feel, and the 'user fuzzy
feeling' it brought to the NT platform (like the new control panel look,
which was just as bad as the Vista one) the only thing I can think of,
off the top of my head that it had in the OS that 2k didn't, was zip
capability.

Vista has a LOT more then XP does.  Which is the double edged sword that
hit them.  People had gotten to like XP, and weren't willing to put up
with the initial Vista issues for the new features.

Really, it's just a matter of taste right now.  Another issue is machine
power.  Vista is a heftier OS.  If you have a machine that is maxing out
XP's capabilities, you are using the wrong OS, it should have Vista.  If
you have a machine that XP just runs normally on, it's probably not
hefty enough to run Vista at it's true potential.

Drew


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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
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