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Apr. 11th, 2008 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI just had to give the "Microsoft Normal" speech. It's been years since we ran into a product with a learning curve bad enough to require that. The "Microsoft Normal" speech is:
"Understand that the people at Microsoft think that they've designed something intuitive, simple, and normal. And understand that at Microsoft, it's considered normal to work more than eighty hours a week and live on Mountain Dew and Skittles. The people who created this product have completely forgotten what the rest of the world is dealing with when they sit down and look at their computer. That is why you can't find anything, or do anything that you used to be able to do. They think this is normal."
(Office 2007, if I could get away with replacing you with Open Office, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But my users would burst into flames even faster.)
"Understand that the people at Microsoft think that they've designed something intuitive, simple, and normal. And understand that at Microsoft, it's considered normal to work more than eighty hours a week and live on Mountain Dew and Skittles. The people who created this product have completely forgotten what the rest of the world is dealing with when they sit down and look at their computer. That is why you can't find anything, or do anything that you used to be able to do. They think this is normal."
(Office 2007, if I could get away with replacing you with Open Office, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But my users would burst into flames even faster.)
