Can I offer a big "Thank You"

[Jim_Campbell]

... To everyone at IBM and Microsoft for doing their bit to make my working day just that little bit more frustrating than it needs to be.

Firstly, thank you to the Lotus Notes development team, for setting up the contacts system so that you can change a person's e-mail address in every one of the three places that it is immediately visible only to discover that the e-mails are STILL sent to the old address. That is, unless you think you to navigate through to a tabbed box marked "Advanced" and change it there.

And to those responsible for Microsoft Word. Thank you. Why on earth would I want the Open/Save/Insert Picture dialogue boxes to take me back to the same folder that I was JUST F*CKING USING rather than taking me to the "My Documents" directory every time?

And, given that if I want to insert multiple pictures into a Word document, the fact that I have to navigate all the way back to the folder I've saved them in from "My Documents" for each image isn't at all frustrating. No. Never mind, you've included the option to select multiple images from the Insert Picture dialogue.

Obviously, when using this feature I'll want the pictures inserting into the Document in PRECISELY THE REVERSE ORDER TO THE ORDER I SELECTED THEM IN.

Someone bring me a hammer.

Gaah!

Jim

[Slippery PD]

As a Microsoft engineer whose employed by IBM, do I now feel really guilty.

Slips

PS- Notes is Sh!te.  Ive used it everyday for nearly 6 years and still cant use it properly.

[Banners]

I'm a Certified Lotus Professional. It's a crappy email client but a wonderful development environment for non-relational data.

M@

[Woolly]

Bill Gates - Keeping himself in business since the late seventies...

[LARF]

smug*














* I use Macintosh.

[IndigoPrime]

Half-smug*





* I use both.

[Jim_Campbell]

"I use Macintosh."

So do I. At home [1]. Wouldn't catch me touching a Windows box if had any choice in the matter.

It just astonishes me that there are so many people who accept this irrational, counter-intuitive piece of crap as an acceptable work tool, just because they don't know any better.

Cheers

Jim

[1] Mac user since '94 and proud of it. Ahh ... my old Performa 450 with its 4Mb of RAM and a specially upgraded 160Mb HD. That 25MHz clock speed was something to behold.

[Slippery PD]

Well I was going to go on about Team Rooms and their  advantages.  But didnt think it was my place....

I have nothing against MACS, I have one at home.  But it was hardly the place for the usual MAC vs PC rant that occassionally occupies the board with no real resolution.....  ;)

Slips

[Banners]

It just astonishes me that there are so many people who accept this irrational, counter-intuitive piece of crap as an acceptable work tool, just because they don't know any better.

I like mice with two buttons.

M@

[Jim_Campbell]

"I like mice with two buttons."

I don't particularly. Of course, there's no reason why you can't have a two button mouse on a Mac if you want one ...

Cheers

Jim

[Noisybast]

Ah, but did you prefer the ZX Spectrum or the Commodore 64?

[Max Kon]

And to those responsible for Microsoft Word. Thank you. Why on earth would I want the Open/Save/Insert Picture dialogue boxes to take me back to the same folder that I was JUST F*CKING USING rather than taking me to the "My Documents" directory every time?

but i like that function... unless you were being sarcastic, which doesn't make sense because when i insert pictures it always takes me back to the floder i was in the last time. What version of word are you using?

[Art]

What you want is Sharepoint!

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/default.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technol

[SamuelAWilkinson]

It just astonishes me that there are so many people who accept this irrational, counter-intuitive piece of crap as an acceptable work tool, just because they don't know any better.


But they don't know any better. You just said so yourself. If that's not an acceptable reason, I don't know what is.

[LARF]

"I have nothing against MACS, I have one at home. But it was hardly the place for the usual MAC vs PC rant that occassionally occupies the board with no real resolution..... ;)"

Ooooooooooooooooh, get you!

:-)

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