As evident by this Wiki post Microsoft's Silverlight which I think is supposed to be competition to Flash is 100% buzzword compliant. The first paragraph of the entry is chock full of buzzwords. Unfortunately the product is about a big a lose as one can imagine.
Right now I am trying to watch some Olympic coverage on NBC's website. It forced this upon me. First the controls - I hate them - now I can't say if this is NBC's doing or Microsoft's, either way - complete junk.
The wiki entry alone shows that this product epitomizes the need for this blog. This is hopelessly and needlessly complex. First, the plug-in didn't even notice that it was a plug-in. I had to download, install and restart my browser step-by-step. Again, don't know if this is NBC or Microsoft.
The view of the screen and "progress" bar gave no indication of buffering. When I tried to back up a bit, it reloaded and paused for a while, then finally showed me something.
If this is meant to be a competitor to youtube or google video - to use one word - FAIL!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
How can we communicate with Microsoft about Office
Today I was ranting about the number of things that Microsoft has messed up in the new version of office.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/flyoutoverview.mspx
I looked around for some pagination problems a friend was having. It was a monumental effort to get it to change to something manageable. The page number problems have abounded since Word 2000. Yes that's a decade people. How incredibly hard can it be to get page numbering right. Oh and by the way bullet numbering is frequently if not more often more frustrating than page numbering. How is it possible that bullets and levels are so darned hard. I worked for a company 25 years ago called Unilogic that made a product called Scribe. This would format all manner of documents and do it mostly correct from what I recall. How can things have gotten so hard to do now. Answer: needless complexity.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/flyoutoverview.mspx
I looked around for some pagination problems a friend was having. It was a monumental effort to get it to change to something manageable. The page number problems have abounded since Word 2000. Yes that's a decade people. How incredibly hard can it be to get page numbering right. Oh and by the way bullet numbering is frequently if not more often more frustrating than page numbering. How is it possible that bullets and levels are so darned hard. I worked for a company 25 years ago called Unilogic that made a product called Scribe. This would format all manner of documents and do it mostly correct from what I recall. How can things have gotten so hard to do now. Answer: needless complexity.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
GnuCash didn't work out
I just couldn't tackle the double entry bookkeeping thing. Also while I successfully managed to get the thing to pull my balance from my banks using OFX, pulling transaction records proved impossible.
Back to Quicken '06 - it works - it isn't great - but I have it.
BTW - Great comic strip I just was turned onto by a friend of mine:
http://xkcd.com/327/
Back to Quicken '06 - it works - it isn't great - but I have it.
BTW - Great comic strip I just was turned onto by a friend of mine:
http://xkcd.com/327/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)