Speaking of Crappy UI

LeeNetworX · 11-27-2012, 08:28 AM

Offshoot from the Win8 thread. Anyone else been using Office 2013? Holy crap. And I mean crap. What is it with this push to bland, boring, construction-paper mock-up looking UIs? Google Mail, Windows 8 Metro, etc. It's horrible. And some of the nicest small features here and there (like in Outlook, having the whole folder name in bold face when there are unread items in it, not just a tiny bold number next to the folder name) are gone. The UI literally looks like the crap in the old days of LINUX and shareware, where free also usually meant free from any aesthetically pleasing menus or interfaces.

I had to uninstall and go back to Office 2010 on my workstation and VMs, save for one test VM I need it on.

To MS:

11-27-2012, 08:28 AM	#1
LeeNetworX SFL Expatriate #1 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: ATL Burbs Moto: '09 Triumph Speed Triple Posts: 4,712	Speaking of Crappy UI Offshoot from the Win8 thread. Anyone else been using Office 2013? Holy crap. And I mean crap. What is it with this push to bland, boring, construction-paper mock-up looking UIs? Google Mail, Windows 8 Metro, etc. It's horrible. And some of the nicest small features here and there (like in Outlook, having the whole folder name in bold face when there are unread items in it, not just a tiny bold number next to the folder name) are gone. The UI literally looks like the crap in the old days of LINUX and shareware, where free also usually meant free from any aesthetically pleasing menus or interfaces. I had to uninstall and go back to Office 2010 on my workstation and VMs, save for one test VM I need it on. To MS:

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