Yeah, and I am Mother Theresa too. So far, you haven't said anything that made any sense. You have no idea what you are talking about.
“People don’t like them, they skip them,”,/i>
Chortle!
You were talking about HOME users no? Them people that you claimed had 'no sysadmins" at home?
Them poor old grandmothers and old aunties? They like them, cause they are not techies, and the tour tells them in a nice friendly way, how to use IE8, when they install E8 at home, and thre in no one around to tell the how to use its features.
” and if you make them hard to skip they find it even worse.”,/i>
Again, there is a clearly marked button to skip the IE8 if you want to, and again you have the option to come back and take the tour whenever you want if you want to as well.
Easy. See?
I’m talking about all users. There are 3 big things the industry is phasing out: thick documentation because nobody reads it, context sensitive help because the only people that know how to bring it up don’t need it, and tours because nobody likes them.
Grandmas and old aunties don’t like tours because the information isn’t what they need when they need it. It’s a bunch of demo crap about features they don’t understand how they’ll use them and by the time they get to them they’ve forgotten what the tour said. Application tours are just like tourist tours: they’re boring, they don’t show what the people actually want to see, and they wind up not being informative.
The clearly marked button to get rid of the tour, Ask Me Later, causes the tour to come back up the next day. It doesn’t actually get rid of it permanently.