300 DPI required for commercial printing.

I have a poster on my wall that reads "Any Program That Runs Right is Obsolete."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
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"Paul" wrote in message
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On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:43:52 -0000, "GbH"
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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

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I have a poster on my wall that reads "Any Program That Runs Right is
Obsolete."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

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

"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