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To: DonaldC

If it runs Windows apps without crashing they can take down Mickeysoft itself.

People already are buying computers with “free downgrade” from Vista to XP because VISTA is such a stupid pain in the ass

Vista did nothing but add pretty colors, bloat, strange new menus to try to learn, confusion, and wasted on-screen real estate space and overhead to a pretty good operating system, WindowsXPPro.

The same as Office 2007- I was so annoyed that the ‘ribbon bar’ took a quarter of my screen and moved every command somewhere that I could not find that I unloaded it and went back to 2003 and recommended to our entire organization of 3000 computers that we had no reason to switch, and the resulting confusion would waste tens of thousands of man-hours AND $$$$ with no discernable benefit.


10 posted on 05/13/2009 7:59:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (physically unabel to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: Mr. K

Right on !!

Office 2007 - why bother to retain a menuing system that has been in place for almost 15 years?

Yup, I get tons of requests to replace 2007 with 2003 - with the conversion file set, 2003 works just fine.

There is a $49, 3rd party, ‘upgrade’ pac that chenges the 2007 menu set to that of 2003. Who said MS didn’t encourage small business?


15 posted on 05/13/2009 8:22:57 AM PDT by ASOC (Who IS that fat lady, and why is she singing?????)
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To: Mr. K
The same as Office 2007- I was so annoyed that the ‘ribbon bar’

Yeah, that was the stupidest move that group of "geniuses" ever made. It dropped productivity twenty-fold.

We now use Open Office. It is free and stable.

18 posted on 05/13/2009 8:29:32 AM PDT by GingisK
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