Posts by sab0tage

Windows 8 ribbon entangles Microsoft

Are you blind?

Click the down arrow near the help button (it's the question mark in the blue circle) and it will magically disappear and take up less space than the menu did in Office 2003.

What's wrong with the ribbon?

Don't people like easy to find, logically organised menus these days? It took me 5 minutes to figure out (and love) the Ribbon, at long last I could forget having to move my mouse like an epileptic through a maze of menu trees.

I do believe that anyone who doesn't think the Ribbon is easier to use has some sort of brain damage and probably can't tie their own shoe laces.

Microsoft COO: Our greatest enemy is old Windows

Lab?

Windows 7 was released on the internet for beta testing, it was not stuck in a lab. Microsoft do more external usability testing than pretty much any other company.

You probably don't need Win7 pro.

I think you will probably find Win7 Home edition more than suitable (and far less expensive), a lot of the "pro" features aren't in XP so you won't miss them.

Microsoft says exec took secret 'trove' to Salesforce

Garden leave?

There's a difference between thought processes and theft of documents. Normally in these sorts of situations Miszewski would have been put on gardening leave or it be stipulated in his contract that if he were to leave he would not be able to work for a competitor for a 12/18 months, so the competitive advantage is removed.

I would be very surprised if he didn't violate that agreement in some way.

Microsoft disputes Apple's 'App Store' trademark

But...

they don't manufacture glass panes and frames. They are in a different industry where Windows is unique, if they had called it "Operating System" and tried to prevent everyone else from using that then I'm sure Apple would complain about having to call their OS "Apple Hardware Management and Software Platform X" or something.