wasn't just forced purchase - but complete loss of productivity
Its not just the forced purchase ... but the near complete loss of productivity that came about by microsoft changing well known and established functions, keystrokes, and access methods.
Sure everyone could use 2 or 3 ways to access some function or feature in both the OS and Office suites ... but just like CTRL C is copy .. you shouldn't be changing OTHER things for no valid reasons.
Windows 95 through XP ... I right click a blank area of the desk top and do "Properties" ... something I've been doing for what... 15 years? and now no longer does "properties" link to the same tabs and options with 7 and vista as it did previously. Change your screen resolution ... you can't... you have to access a completely different way ...
Office .. that F**king ribbon bar.. its fine that some people like it, find it functional for *them* but to completely destroy your user base .. to remove from the well established business functionality, your key software suite, and change all the key combinations, not give the users a *choice* of menuing system, or to give them transitional menus.. you cut everyone off.
Sure, with office, new users who had NEVER BEFORE SEEN office were able to get some things done ... but those that knew their function keys, knew their ALT+Key menu selections, and didn't have to take their hands off the keyboard were now stuck grabbing the mouse, and cursoring through several menus trying to find what they had previously known how to do..
And that's nothing for the ribbon's complete backwards nature when it came to operating with Laptops that have limited screen realestate ... and before you f**king morons come back with your usual "hide the ribbon bar" doing so means having YET ONE MORE CLICK to make EVEN BEFORE you can figure out where your previous menu item is..
The fact that before Vista ... users had been using an OS that was similar in access methods for better than 10 years, is one of those key mistakes microsoft made in "redesign" ... you don't throw away EVERYTHING you learned before just to start new.. not with an OS, not with a product base that has had 90% market saturation for more than a decade .... you wouldn't suddenly go in and swap the gas pedal for the brake pedal in a car model ... or move the turn signal selector to the opposite side of the steering column.. you don't change key menu functions without good reason, and microsoft NEVER had a good reason..
THAT pissed off just as many if not more people than those required to purchase the product to keep up with the Jones's.
