Windows Vista and Office 12 (was: Poll)

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Richard Combs, responding to my curmudgeonly attack upon icons and 
toolbars, observed: <<Boy, are you going to hate Windows Vista and 
Office 12! :-)>>

Fortunately, I use a Mac <g>, and Office 12 probably won't be available 
for the Mac before I retire... we're still not expecting Office _2003_ 
before 2007, if then.

But yeah... I'm gonna hate 'em both. Unless Microsoft is smart enough 
to have learned from past mistakes (as if!) and allow users to choose 
between the new and old interfaces. One of the "rules" of interface 
design should always be "if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but if you 
suspect it's broke, at least let users choose between the old broken 
interface and the new one".

If the new interface is so damned good, nobody will use the old one. 
But if you guessed wrong, as Microsoft did in Word 2002/XP, then you 
don't screw up your power users for several years until they adapt. Or 
perhaps this was just a clever ploy to motivate users to upgrade to 
2003?

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(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
www.geoff-hart.com
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