On 5/11/13 4:12 AM, ...winston wrote:
"xfile" wrote in message ...

...winston wrote....

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Additionally, similar distress was expressed about the 'Ribbon' deployment in Office and other products (Windows Essentials and
earlier versions)
***It's still here***
....and the person responsible for the Ribbon in Office is now the person responsible for Windows! (link/video of her comments on
Windows 8 past and future provided earlier)

But that doesn't mean that:

1. People like it
2. It is/was a good idea.

My observation of the majority of computer users/consumers is they are
still basically ignorant about them.

Take MS Word, for example. How many users of Word have it because they
think/believe they "have" to have Word to be compatible with other word
processor users? I don't think they know that almost every word
processor these days read and write doc/docx files. Even the free
ones. And you aren't limited to Windows for this! I use a Mac, and the
free word processor I use (for a little while longer, anyway :-) ) can
read and write Word files. And the one I'm going to look at as a
replacement also reads and writes the files.

I think too many users choose Windows and MS Office products because
they are sheeple. Everyone else has it, everyone else says that's what
they need, so that's what they buy. There's other reasons too, such as
it's hard to find Mac outlets, even harder to see a Linux box, but I'm
referring to the aggregate result.

Lastly...

Please, Winston, would you use a different program for posting to the
newsgroup? Normally, I neither read nor reply to your posts because it
wastes my time to wade through things trying to figure out who said
what. I only read it this time because of the subject of the thread.

Your use of software that does not follow the guidelines only encourages
people to accept products that don't work correctly, and teaches them
that poor performance is acceptable.

You are a knowledgeable person. You should be teaching people to be
better computer users, not poorer. Lead by example.

You are better than this, IMO.

--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.3
Firefox 20.0
Thunderbird 17.0.5
LibreOffice 4.0.1.2