On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 11:19 +0000, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> >Yep, MS screwed up by making v1 too annoying, but thanks to 
> >the nerds, it won't get improved on.  This is despite everyone 
> >wanting the 'computer agent' for years.  They got it, and then 
> >decided they didn't want a cartoon paperclip being smarter than them.  
> 
> Or perhaps, like me, they didn't want a distracting animated paper clip bouncing around in the bottom of their screen whilst trying to do some work.  I'm pretty sure I'm not a nerd, but someone should have invented a virtual pair of wire cutters to fix that paperclip.  If I want to check if there is a better way to do something I use google, or maybe even the help file.

Agreed. The problem wasn't so much "the help". The problem was the
"unasked for help".

It was by default on, it was by default VERY distracting, and yes, you
COULD probably learn stuff from it, but it was SO distracting all I
wanted to learn was how to shut it off, permanently. Funny thing is if I
recall correctly, you COULD ask IT how to turn it off, and it would
eventually tell you.

If it had had a simple "off" button I wouldn't have complained as much,
but turning the thing off meant going through several options, and even
after clicking it off, there was a stupid animation of it "leaving".

We aren't using kids toys. When someone pays hundreds of dollars for a
piece of software and then is confronted by an animated character you
can't really blame them for feeling a little "annoyed".

TTYL

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