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Subject:RE: Documenting two similar interfaces From:"Mike McCallister" <mike -dot- mccallister -at- pkware -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:39:56 -0500
It would be interesting to see how all of these track over time, to see
if initial massive rejection becomes resignation becomes (grudging?)
acceptance.
One more anecdotal data point: At WritersUA this year, they did a
handraise poll on the ribbon during Mary Jo Foley's keynote. Crowd was
pretty evenly divided, to the surprise of most. Of course, WritersUA was
in Seattle.
I only used Office 2007 for six weeks earlier this year, and never got
past the revulsion stage. At this job, I'm happily back to 2003.
Mike McCallister
Document Architect
PKWARE, Inc.
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Subject: RE: Documenting two similar interfaces
Completely anecdotal, unreliable, and unscientific. As you say, this
isn't for a PhD dissertation, but it should be good enough for a beer
bet.
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> To: Dan Goldstein
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> Subject: Re: Documenting two similar interfaces
>
> Google to the rescue...
>
> Results 1 - 10 of about 8,560 for "Office 2007 ribbon" love.
>
> Results 1 - 10 of about 187,000 for "Office 2007 ribbon" hate.
>
> That's a 21.84 to 1 advantage.
>
> I made no attempt to look for "don't hate" or for "don't love." Didn't
> check "don't exactly love" either, and neglected to correct for the
> effect of overreporting by whiners. Those are for somebody's PhD
> dissertation.
>
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