john

"meg99az" <marcg99999 at aol dot com> wrote in message
news:1175237624_10245@sp6iad.superfeed.net...
>I have my first new machine with Vista and Office 2007.
> They are usability disasters as far as I am concerned.
> It seeems as though an awful lot of development effort went into bells and
> whistles, most of it form over substance, while dismantling many of the
> most
> important usability and productivity features.
>
> I know that new OSes and interfaces need time to sink in, but these new
> programs aren't just new - they are legitimately worse - dysfunctional for
> genuine productivity, a return to the stone ages. Seems like that on the
> next major OS release, we will be back to swapping floppies or using
> cassette recorders to load the OS.
>
> I hate to complain without offering up thoughtful details and suggestions.
> But before I do, my question is this:
>
> Does anyone from MS read these NG's or take them seriously? Does this all
> fall on deaf ears and arrogant disregard for customers, or is there
> someone
> at MS who takes this all seriously? If not, where else does one go to
> register thoughtful feedback?
>
> If someone is listening, I just might be a regular participant here.
>

Well according to Bill Gates himself:

"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what
people want?"
- Bill Gates

"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
- Bill Gates