Arbitrary changes

[Guest]

I have been using Windows since before (aka DOS) and with each iteration
there are arbitrary changes made to the interface. Changes to "find",
"search", "control panel" etc., etc., etc., are aggravating and do not add to
the usability of the interface. Please decide some of these questions among
your "engineers" once and for all and leave them be!

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Changes to the user interface (UI) are based on usability studies done with
hundreds of randomly selected participants. Some of them may be industry
professionals, but just as many are people from everyday mainstream life.
They are not based on indeterminate discretionary decisions made by
engineers. Were that the case we would all still be using a CLI.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Christopher R. Lee]

You must be joking!

Would you expect the pedals of your motor car to change positions with each
new model?

Of course, I'm exaggerating: I change my car less often than MS changes its
operating systems.

Regards

 

[Michael Jennings]

They could get rid of the steering column. Why should the front seat passenger
have the only death seat? This is not sharing - the driver needs a death seat too.
Equity demands that the driver have nothing to hold on to other than the steering
joy stick, or some other fairly innovative side positioned motor car pointer.

 

[Guest]

The replies I saw earlier, including by a MS engineer (or what?) did not
address my concerns. My point is that a GUI is supposed to simplify NOT
complicate. I fully understand CLI (at least you have a good idea of what to
expect) but that changes to the GUI lead to unexpected results. I don't
think that's right. Here's an example:
in message

I can't find the little yellow 'up' one file button on Vista
Explorer. On XP, it's just right of the back & forward buttons.
Surely, they wouldn't eliminate it on Vista. Did they move it or do
I need to do something to enable it?

It is there, improved, and in a different form.

You just click on the second to last location in the address bar (breadcrumb
navigation).

 

[Guest]

And here is another example found in the discussions on minutes later:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...general/browse_thread/thread/eddc6507a0de36b6

 

[Guest]

I'm sure I shouldn't reply to my own posts but the point is that one must
search AGAIN searching in the system and "hidden" areas to find what one was
looking for in the first place.