On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Les Hughes <l...@datarev.com.au> wrote:
> David Connors wrote: > >> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@iinet.net.au<mailto: >> il.tho...@iinet.net.au**>> wrote: >> >> At a tangent, I hate Metro styling with a passion. Did MH have >> anything to do with its adoption? >> >> I couldn't agree more. Metro is shite and should be dropped into a bin >> along with The Ribbon. The fact they are farting around with colour >> selection while you still have to run VS.NET <http://VS.NET> as >> administrator for some types of development is insane. >> >> I actually like the Ribbon. > > Over the past 3 years I've done some heavy MS Office development with > tight application integration and find that the Ribbon lets me make useful > and simple interfaces easily. > > MS certainly could have done some better work when placing some of the > functionality when they moved to the ribbon, but overall I think it's > actually quite decent. > > Mostly I can live with Office. Just quit re-arranging it. > P.S. Friday Flamewar already? :P > Never too soon to start. -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
