2011/3/22 Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>

> Ariel Rocholl wrote:
> > Do you actually have an specific example in mind? In my experience,
> > this is quite the opposite. MS is adding more features to the power
> > users than ever before. Take PowerShell, or take MS Office 2007 or
> > 2010 for instance, I don't like the ribbon stuff and new GUI, but the
> > menu shortcuts are more powerful than ever. Click on [Alt] key in MS
> > Word and you will get a very clever implementation on visible
> > shortcuts.
>
> I remember a few years ago having to use the then new version of Word on
> one
> computer while using the older Word 2000 on other computers.  There was a
> large difference.  There were more right click context menus in the new
> word
> that I couldn't find regular menu entries for or other workarounds.  It
> seemed you were forced to use the mouse a lot more, which I found annoyin=
g.
> Maybe there was more stuff buried in the new version that I didn't get
> around to learning (I use Word infrequently and just needed to get a
> particular job done).  It did seem like they changed things for the sake =
of
> changing things.
>

I think is a wrong perception. There are more and more buried things that
may require deeper knowledge to use properly, but that doesn't mean they ar=
e
not actually there. They do change the Office GUI a lot, I suppose to
justify you are paying for a new piece of software that does basically the
same as the previous one, but at the same time the power user can do more
and more things if you care to learn it.

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