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Old 06-18-2009, 11:50 AM
Komonoway
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RE: What was MS thinking?

Glad to see this question generated some response. Gemini, thank you for
sharring in my sentiment. I'm still kinda new to these MS forums and they're
really helping with all the trouble I'm comming into. Just a couple side
questions to bring this post back from the dead, who are these "MVP" folks?
Do these guys work for MS...all they're posts are like "Shutup, shutup,
Office 2007 rules, there's no user problems, it's compatable with
everything". Okay...well...so us how the new UI "increases" productivity,
almost everything I try to do, be it in Excel or Word is taking me more
clicks and more time. Mr. Frisch wanted to be a smartallic and post links to
some 07 training videos...okay, if I have to take time out of my day to take
training to learn where the same features are on a software I've been using
for 10 years...that's a fail. That's an epic fail.
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Old 06-18-2009, 01:40 PM
Earle Horton
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Re: What was MS thinking?

MVPs (a) represent customers who have purchased an awful lot of Microsoft
software and (b) have made some real or imagined contribution to Microsoft's
online communities. You should believe everything that an MVP says,
unconditionally.

Earle

"Komonoway" <Komonoway@discussions.microsoft.com> escribió en el mensaje de
noticias news:3DB5582B-401E-4044-A2CA-E8B3F2E75AF9@microsoft.com...
> Glad to see this question generated some response. Gemini, thank you for
> sharring in my sentiment. I'm still kinda new to these MS forums and
> they're
> really helping with all the trouble I'm comming into. Just a couple side
> questions to bring this post back from the dead, who are these "MVP"
> folks?
> Do these guys work for MS...all they're posts are like "Shutup, shutup,
> Office 2007 rules, there's no user problems, it's compatable with
> everything". Okay...well...so us how the new UI "increases" productivity,
> almost everything I try to do, be it in Excel or Word is taking me more
> clicks and more time. Mr. Frisch wanted to be a smartallic and post links
> to
> some 07 training videos...okay, if I have to take time out of my day to
> take
> training to learn where the same features are on a software I've been
> using
> for 10 years...that's a fail. That's an epic fail.


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Old 06-18-2009, 02:00 PM
Tom Willett
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Re: What was MS thinking?

And, of course, there are the Hoopleheads, of which you are a prime leader.

"Earle Horton" <earleh@live.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:u8ds5QF8JHA.5356@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
: MVPs (a) represent customers who have purchased an awful lot of Microsoft
: software and (b) have made some real or imagined contribution to
Microsoft's
: online communities. You should believe everything that an MVP says,
: unconditionally.
:
: Earle
:
: "Komonoway" <Komonoway@discussions.microsoft.com> escribió en el mensaje
de
: noticias news:3DB5582B-401E-4044-A2CA-E8B3F2E75AF9@microsoft.com...
: > Glad to see this question generated some response. Gemini, thank you
for
: > sharring in my sentiment. I'm still kinda new to these MS forums and
: > they're
: > really helping with all the trouble I'm comming into. Just a couple
side
: > questions to bring this post back from the dead, who are these "MVP"
: > folks?
: > Do these guys work for MS...all they're posts are like "Shutup, shutup,
: > Office 2007 rules, there's no user problems, it's compatable with
: > everything". Okay...well...so us how the new UI "increases"
productivity,
: > almost everything I try to do, be it in Excel or Word is taking me more
: > clicks and more time. Mr. Frisch wanted to be a smartallic and post
links
: > to
: > some 07 training videos...okay, if I have to take time out of my day to
: > take
: > training to learn where the same features are on a software I've been
: > using
: > for 10 years...that's a fail. That's an epic fail.
:


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Old 06-18-2009, 08:30 PM
Steve Rindsberg
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Re: What was MS thinking?

In article <3DB5582B-401E-4044-A2CA-E8B3F2E75AF9@microsoft.com>, Komonoway
wrote:
> Glad to see this question generated some response. Gemini, thank you for
> sharring in my sentiment. I'm still kinda new to these MS forums and they're
> really helping with all the trouble I'm comming into. Just a couple side
> questions to bring this post back from the dead, who are these "MVP" folks?


Other users of MS products, volunteers, not MS employees, who have expertise in
one or more programs and who share that expertise with other users here.

> Do these guys work for MS...all they're posts are like "Shutup, shutup,
> Office 2007 rules, there's no user problems, it's compatable with
> everything".


Like most users who're passionate about software, they can have strong opinions,
and don't always agree with one another. For example I can quote another MVP
who'd subscribe to "Shut up, shut up, the new UI sucks for power users and is a
huge mistake."

> Okay...well...so us how the new UI "increases" productivity,
> almost everything I try to do, be it in Excel or Word is taking me more
> clicks and more time. Mr. Frisch wanted to be a smartallic and post links to
> some 07 training videos...okay, if I have to take time out of my day to take
> training to learn where the same features are on a software I've been using
> for 10 years...that's a fail. That's an epic fail.


Yup. One of the reasons the fella I quoted above would say such a thing.

I'm pretty sure I got the quote verbatim. He'd be me. ;-)


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