If we don't complain, MS will never know it's broken and never consider a fix. Even if we are ignored, hopefully the input from many people will help MS in there deliberations for the next update or iteration.
Oooo.... Now that IS a scary thought! Almost like Office 365 where you "Rent" the software, and pay, and pay ,and pay... (I own my copy.)On the suggestion of "modularity", be careful of what you wish for cause you just may get it
Yeah, it's a great idea until Microsoft starts charging as "add-ins" for Windows. Next thing you know people are screaming bloody murder cause Microsoft gave you what you wanted.... for a price
See my post in another thread, where I already pointed out that they could have just added the ability to enable/disable (or show/hide) a flexible list of optional/advanced features to let the user decide.
There's complaining and then there's wining about something. MS has made up it's mind on 11 already and the only way to comment on it it via the feedback mechanism. Complaining about it here is not going to get MS to do about a thing
Face facts.. for whatever reason MS didn't and we're never going to find out why. The changes that took place in 11 catered to the needs of the business community and not the everyday user, like us.
Yeah, that's a future I see coming to Windows - pay for add-in modularity.
I already did face facts, that's what I always do, and, I do it for a living. As for my own personal use, I have installed ExplorerPatcher, Open-Shell, Battery Mode and TranslucentTB, and I also have applied a fairly big number of tweaks the vast majority of which are just registry settings. I have said this before, this isn't about me. Rather, it is about others, who feel like they were left behind only because they refuse to install 3rd party stuff like this and also because they don't want to apply a whole plethora of tweaks that would make things too complicated for them and/or are too tedious to them, or else they fear that these solutions might stop working eventually and/or might break stuff. These are all valid concerns about shortcomings. (Even, if these shortcomings have no direct impact on me in any way, shape or form.) I can still acknowledge that that's what they factually are, and, I do. Maybe you can't or won't do the same, and that's all fine by me. But I am a trained software developer. I do this for a living. If I decided to remove useful features like Microsoft has done, that would be among absolute fastest ways for me to get fired. Speaking of facts, I can't fire Microsoft. But you can rest assured that very large corporations who use the type of technologies that I use in my IT role rely on these same technologies only because they can afford to not buy from Microsoft in just about each and every situation where choosing to not buy from Microsoft is feasible to these very large corporations. Had Microsoft decided to show a little bit more respect to home users of Windows, I am confident it would've gained Microsoft some of its lost credibility back. It is one of those reasons why two decades ago I did not go for .NET (and I also have a nickname for it: .NOT
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I don't care either way.. now I'm going let this go.. you should conciser doing the same.I already did face facts, that's what I always do, and, I do it for a living. As for my own personal use, I have installed ExplorerPatcher, Open-Shell, Battery Mode and TranslucentTB, and I also have applied a fairly big number of tweaks the vast majority of which are just registry settings. I have said this before, this isn't about me. Rather, it is about others, who feel like they were left behind only because they refuse to install 3rd party stuff like this and also because they don't want to apply a whole plethora of tweaks that would make things too complicated for them and/or are too tedious to them, or else they fear that these solutions might stop working eventually and/or might break stuff. These are all valid concerns about shortcomings. (Even, if these shortcomings have no direct impact on me in any way, shape or form.) I can still acknowledge that that's what they factually are, and, I do. Maybe you can't or won't do the same, and that's all fine by me. But I am a trained software developer. I do this for a living. If I decided to remove useful features like Microsoft has done, that would be among absolute fastest ways for me to get fired. Speaking of facts, I can't fire Microsoft. But you can rest assured that very large corporations who use the type of technologies that I use in my IT role rely on these same technologies only because they can afford to not buy from Microsoft in just about each and every situation where choosing to not buy from Microsoft is feasible to these very large corporations. Had Microsoft decided to show a little bit more respect to home users of Windows, I am confident it would've gained Microsoft some of its lost credibility back. It is one of those reasons why two decades ago I did not go for .NET (and I also have a nickname for it: .NOT
Of course you don't care. That was my whole point to begin with.
And you're beating a dead horse.
Yup.Office is a little different; and yeah, I'm paying the subscription :)
BTW, what you paid for (think you "own") is a license to use said software. The only difference between you and me, is mine renews every year so I'll always have the latest versions, where yours is a one-time pay for a single version.
That said as a Microsoft Office user since 1998, it's a suite I relish and thus have no issues paying the subscription. YMMV
I wasn't talking about replacing the whole sky. It's just a bar for crying out loud. You know... with icons. And a few menus and that sort of thing. Like, just one step above rocket science. Not two steps I mean... only a single one.
Of course it's not just Microsoft. That's just because Microsoft is an unremarkable company that is so terribly poor in fact, it does not have the capacity to stand out from the rest.the issue was that this virtually doubles the cost for the same, albeit improved functions ad a few new ones - there is a long running "discussion" on their own internal Forum, that has a few blanked out words ...
It's not just Microsoft
support.microsoft.com
Yep Nige, that was my impression as well, I was just wondering if O365 got preference regarding updates - I have O365 on my corporate PC - will check versions on Monday.
