Comments on: Office 2003 Compared http://www.handcoding.com/archives/2003/11/21/office-2003-compared/ Refenestration Daily. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:39:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mike http://www.handcoding.com/archives/2003/11/21/office-2003-compared/#comment-2219 Mike Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.handcoding.com/archives/2003/11/21/office-2003-compared/#comment-2219 Office is like a hungry fat man that just won't leave the kitchen. It takes over everything, and just gets more bloated with every iteration. Office is like a hungry fat man that just won’t leave the kitchen. It takes over everything, and just gets more bloated with every iteration.

]]> By: brykMantra http://www.handcoding.com/archives/2003/11/21/office-2003-compared/#comment-2220 brykMantra Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://test.handcoding.com/archives/2003/11/21/office-2003-compared/#comment-2220 There's a lot of that going around. Paint Shop Pro made it a point to muck up a lot of the menu commands in the new release (8.0). I was used to bringing up the last file I worked on by hitting Alt-F then 1, or the next to last file with Alt-F and 2. Now, though, recent files are buried in under another level of submenus. And for no good reason the totally mucked up most of the menu commands so they no longer start with the same hotkeys. All these software companies seem to be following Bill Gates' lead, and that ain't a good thing ... There’s a lot of that going around. Paint Shop Pro made it a point to muck up a lot of the menu commands in the new release (8.0).

I was used to bringing up the last file I worked on by hitting Alt-F then 1, or the next to last file with Alt-F and 2. Now, though, recent files are buried in under another level of submenus.

And for no good reason the totally mucked up most of the menu commands so they no longer start with the same hotkeys.

All these software companies seem to be following Bill Gates’ lead, and that ain’t a good thing …

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