Jurgen Welz
jwelz at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 3 13:37:41 CST 2014
I was happy until they started messing with the keyboard shortcuts. Office began the downward spiral with the ribbon. I used to be able to insert a row with alt i, r. Now it's shift space, ctrl +. It was 3 keys on a typical keyboard turned to 4 (one key with your hands away from the home row) and 5 keys with my laptop (add shift = to get the +). I'd start any application I needed with the Windows key and a single other key (the first letter of the application- I'd just rename so the shortcut worked). I fail to understand the need to lose the old capability. It's not like it couldn't coexist. Windows 8 is negatively impacting productivity and there was never any need for it to do so. If the task bar takes up too much real estate on a screen, I can't help but wonder what braniac came up with the ribbon menu. Put that on a 21:9 widescreen monitor.. I've taken to setting up dual screens with one vertical and one horizontal. Ciao Jürgen Welz Edmonton, Alberta jwelz at hotmail.com > Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:03:42 -0500 > From: jwcolby at gmail.com > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ramblings of a nutcase > > Jim, > > I think that what we really have is a very bi-polar situation where a huge mass of people, billions > of people, work all day at something. They might want to spend all day playing on their tablet but > can't really, they have to stock store shelves, run cash registers, wait tables, drive buses and so > forth. > > After work, yep they jump on their entertainment of choice, whether that may be TV, streaming TV, > surfing the internet or walking the dog. > > The companies that hire the masses do NOT want their employees spending all day on their tablets (or > work computers) surfing the internet, or Facebook, they want them doing their jobs. They do NOT > want their work computers (where one is needed) looking and feeling like an entertainment console. > They do NOT want their employees being sucked off into Facebook, twitter, or Newegg advertisements > because they were researching a new computer build last night at home. They want their employees > doing their job. > > Microsoft, via Windows and the Office package, has been at the very core of the office environment > since day one. Microsoft is the company that it is, 98%, BECAUSE of this focus and environment. > However Microsoft has watched the smartphone craze, and then the tablet craze, and then the Phablet > craze and notice that they missed the boat with the current Windows, which of course they did. So > they threw the baby out with the bathwater and invented Windows 8 which is VERY MUCH a shell over > Windows 7, in order to turn Windows into a tablet / phone friendly OS. That is not a bad thing all > by itself, Microsoft needed to do this, BUT... > > But Windows 8 fanbois opinions to the contrary, it is DECIDEDLY work unfriendly. As a working OS, > companies do not want ANYTHING that diverts the attention of the worker away from their Job, and > Windows 8, BY DESIGN, is about doing just that. Let me rephrase that, it is not intentionally about > that, it is just about recreation instead of about work. The very things that are required for a > good recreation interface get in the way of getting work done. > > This is not ME saying this (though I agree, from admittedly limited experience), it is millions upon > millions upon HUNDREDS of millions of workers and managers and IT folks saying this. > > So Microsoft and their Windows 8 fanbois say "well just be patient, spend some time learning it, > download this app and that app..." > > But Business is NOT about working around the limitations of their basic tools IMPOSED on them by the > creator of those tools in order that the creator of those tools can make money from a segment of the > market that is the antithesis of what Business does. Business should not HAVE to spend hours of > every employee's time, and download tons of crap, simply to get their employees back to work, so > that MS can finally get a slice of the recreation OS market. It is decidedly NOT Business' > problem!!! It is not their problem until MS mangles the BUSINESS Windows interface to make it > recreation friendly and shoves it down Business throat. > > What exactly does MS expect business to do when faced with this? The very fact that Windows 8 is by > design entertainment focused is reason enough, all by itself, for business to refuse to install it > on work machines. What exactly does MS expect Business to do? > > I can tell you what I expect business to do. Refuse to install it. That is precisely what I would > do if I was the manager of the business. > > A Hooka pipe is designed, from the ground up, for recreational pursuits. There is not a person > reading this thread who would seriously propose that Businesses around the world should be required > to install on in their companies. Windows 8 interface was designed, from the ground up, for > recreational purposes. Let's call a spade a spade and stop dancing around the subject. Business does > not want it, and will NEVER want it, and for very good reasons. > > MS needs to continue to market Windows 8 to the recreation market and focus on getting it's business > OS (Windows 7) back on track and continuing to be sold to the millions of business PCs that will > continue to be sold. The office PC is NOT going away anytime soon. And I don't see business > backing down about installing an entertainment console on their work computers. > > John W. Colby > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 2/28/2014 11:04 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote: > > Hi John: > > > > <rant mode on> > > My belief is that the major companies are the entities that are really trying to kill off the PC. > > > > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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