am not saying the UI is better for anyone! it's just is exactly what it is. and i love a 'lively discussion'... am not mad at anyone, we're all entitled to our opinion.
yes, am glad i'm getting paid by the post, even if i keep repeating the same things... 🤣
thanks! you answered the questions, and now i have a better/good understanding. appreciate it !!
i appreciate your optimism... but doubt that, with tech in general, and computers. we'll see much cyclical behavior. i think things will get simpler, perhaps more abstract; i mean, if you're 25, you've grown up with computers, you didn't have to adapt to them; and over time, no one will remember (or care) about what a filofax was, or a paper notepad.
whatever happens next, i look forward to it; i love change, find it challenging (in the best way), adventurous.
and apple controls all of this; we'll see where the next OS takes us (and how many on this thread show up to 'not meltdown' about it)
am confused; how do you sync your 'daytimer' to your iphone?
am confused; how do you sync your 'daytimer' to your iphone?
so you just click where you want to make an entry? seems simple enough... 🤔
-----Agreed; Office 2010 had the best UI design for Office on Windows. And, if you go back and read all of Microsoft's blog posts about it at the time, it was based on actual usability research. Then they had to go and start throwing some of it away…[Recent Office versions'] backstage drives me nuts.
As do various other unnecessary changes to Office applications, such as flat-design scroll bars which are non-obvious as to what’s the scroll bar and what’s the background slider, and how Microsoft dumbed-down the controls for Excel spreadsheet tabs (now takes pressing ctrl to arrow over to the right-most or left-most tab, where previously the arrow icons for that were always visible).
Excel 2016 "Save As" is terrible!!!!
Excel 2016 updated a couple of weeks ago and I've been fighting the "save as" screen ever since. First, it tried to default all save actions to the Cloud. It took a while but I figured out how toanswers.microsoft.com
-----I don't recall Windows 7's translucency and transparency effects as not having been just foggy enough that you couldn't tell windows apart; then again, that might have depending on having a high-contrast desktop background, and the computers I used at the time always did (more often than not just a solid swath of black, IIRC? Perhaps my memory's a bit fuzzy on that, though.) Plus, the drop shadows helped here.
This is what I'm afraid of and what makes me hesitant to buy another Mac. Mine is a 2016, running Mojave. The keyboard sucks and the tabstrip is useless, but Big Sur is not a good trade-off because aesthetically, everything about it gives me a headache. And as far as I can tell, not one single new feature is valuable to me, while they have further locked down the ability to change anything.
i think it's fine. i like the look of it (but i like sleek minimalism); most importantly, all my work apps work, and life goes on.
that's just... sad (hey! only in my opinion). you're stressing details in an OS, over that OSes functionaliy, speed, capabilities. besides, soon there will be the next OS, and perhaps that will look better to you (perhaps).
The problem with this is that everything "works" for me perfectly on Mojave. Since then there hasn't been any feature that appeals to me in any way.
I agree. It is sad that Macs haven't innovated a single cool new feature since 2018, and that I will have to use the exact OS version dictated by Apple because what do I know about my own needs. I'm just renting the software AND hardware.
