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I have a poster on my wall that reads "Any Program That Runs Right is Obsolete."
-- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "bj" wrote in message ... "Paul" wrote in message ... On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:43:52 -0000, "GbH" , in message ID , in the newsgroup microsoft.public.publisher wrote: Don't! There are large teams of people employed it would seem to deliberately obfuscate the user interface on these programs, when one is found that works and is acceptable to the userbase, that is taken as a signal to change, so as to obsolete it and make its replacement 'upgrade' attractive. I do take your point Geoff (especially after I looked up obfuscate) :-) . Not wanting to go too far off topic, but I find MSWorks is such a case with its periodic downgrades since version 4. I have stuck with version 6. Unfortunately my version 4 could not be kept as it was an OEM version. I would have bought a version 4 but by the time I realised, I had kind of got used to v.6. Microsoft are far from being the *only* offender regarding this issue. It's not just software, either, let alone any particular s/w company. I've gotten skittish about letting *any* company know I like a product lest they use that as a signal to change it -- and eliminate the very feature that makes me buy the thing in the first place! To add to my ?bad luck? in this, I'm not in a demographic any of them find desirable, unless they make Depends or denture products or sell medical supplies to Medicare patients. :-) bj |
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Mary Sauer wrote:
I have a poster on my wall that reads "Any Program That Runs Right is Obsolete." "bj" wrote in message ... "Paul" wrote in message ... On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:43:52 -0000, "GbH" , in message ID , in the newsgroup microsoft.public.publisher wrote: Don't! There are large teams of people employed it would seem to deliberately obfuscate the user interface on these programs, when one is found that works and is acceptable to the userbase, that is taken as a signal to change, so as to obsolete it and make its replacement 'upgrade' attractive. I do take your point Geoff (especially after I looked up obfuscate) :-) . Not wanting to go too far off topic, but I find MSWorks is such a case with its periodic downgrades since version 4. I have stuck with version 6. Unfortunately my version 4 could not be kept as it was an OEM version. I would have bought a version 4 but by the time I realised, I had kind of got used to v.6. Microsoft are far from being the *only* offender regarding this issue. It's not just software, either, let alone any particular s/w company. I've gotten skittish about letting *any* company know I like a product lest they use that as a signal to change it -- and eliminate the very feature that makes me buy the thing in the first place! To add to my ?bad luck? in this, I'm not in a demographic any of them find desirable, unless they make Depends or denture products or sell medical supplies to Medicare patients. :-) bj The programmers corollary to that is: If it's working you've obviously not yet played with it enough! -- -- Geoff ExploitEd Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I do wish I could remember the darn question |
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GbH wrote:
Mary Sauer wrote: I have a poster on my wall that reads "Any Program That Runs Right is Obsolete." "bj" wrote in message ... "Paul" wrote in message ... On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:43:52 -0000, "GbH" , in message ID , in the newsgroup microsoft.public.publisher wrote: Don't! There are large teams of people employed it would seem to deliberately obfuscate the user interface on these programs, when one is found that works and is acceptable to the userbase, that is taken as a signal to change, so as to obsolete it and make its replacement 'upgrade' attractive. I do take your point Geoff (especially after I looked up obfuscate) :-) . Not wanting to go too far off topic, but I find MSWorks is such a case with its periodic downgrades since version 4. I have stuck with version 6. Unfortunately my version 4 could not be kept as it was an OEM version. I would have bought a version 4 but by the time I realised, I had kind of got used to v.6. Microsoft are far from being the *only* offender regarding this issue. It's not just software, either, let alone any particular s/w company. I've gotten skittish about letting *any* company know I like a product lest they use that as a signal to change it -- and eliminate the very feature that makes me buy the thing in the first place! To add to my ?bad luck? in this, I'm not in a demographic any of them find desirable, unless they make Depends or denture products or sell medical supplies to Medicare patients. :-) bj The programmers corollary to that is: If it's working you've obviously not yet played with it enough! Or if it ain't broke, fix it some more! -- Geoff ExploitEd Wisdom and experience come with age, they say, but I do wish I could remember the darn question |
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"GbH" wrote in message
... GbH wrote: Mary Sauer wrote: I have a poster on my wall that reads "Any Program That Runs Right is Obsolete." "bj" wrote in message ... "Paul" wrote in message ... On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:43:52 -0000, "GbH" , in message ID , in the newsgroup microsoft.public.publisher wrote: Don't! There are large teams of people employed it would seem to deliberately obfuscate the user interface on these programs, when one is found that works and is acceptable to the userbase, that is taken as a signal to change, so as to obsolete it and make its replacement 'upgrade' attractive. I do take your point Geoff (especially after I looked up obfuscate) :-) . Not wanting to go too far off topic, but I find MSWorks is such a case with its periodic downgrades since version 4. I have stuck with version 6. Unfortunately my version 4 could not be kept as it was an OEM version. I would have bought a version 4 but by the time I realised, I had kind of got used to v.6. Microsoft are far from being the *only* offender regarding this issue. It's not just software, either, let alone any particular s/w company. I've gotten skittish about letting *any* company know I like a product lest they use that as a signal to change it -- and eliminate the very feature that makes me buy the thing in the first place! To add to my ?bad luck? in this, I'm not in a demographic any of them find desirable, unless they make Depends or denture products or sell medical supplies to Medicare patients. :-) bj The programmers corollary to that is: If it's working you've obviously not yet played with it enough! Or if it ain't broke, fix it some more! If the users like it, you've done something wrong, you haven't earned your bonus! bj |
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