I'm using Outlook 2010 alongside Office 2013: would love the new Outlook 2013 features, but there's too many issues in the upgrade. (1) Can't have pop mail deliver to an .OST. Sure I could do that server side, but then I get ALL my mail in the one account on my phone ;) Why this was taken away I'm still not sue (2) Outlook 2013 fails to sync contacts properly with @Live accounts; again a real deal breaker with my phone. So as much as I like some of the new features in 2013, it's too much of a deal breaker (still waiting on SP1/2/3)
As to the ribbon, it has grown on me. The original big concern was lack of customisation available. I 'm quite happy with it minimized and mainly relying on the quick access bar (in the window title). Still I would like it to have a commonly used/ most frequently used/most recently used tab. Say it was called "My" tab, it'd be nice if I could right click on any ribbon command and copy it to the "My" tab, just like you can add it to the quick access bar; and if there was little drop down at the end of the "My" ribbon that showed the most recently (top 3) followed by most frequently used commands as suggestions to add to the ribbon. |-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer |Sent: Monday, 13 May 2013 5:17 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: RE: Is Surface really failing? (tangent # 99) | |a) Threaded comments are a killer feature for me, and auto-object spacing in |Visio. I guess one person’s killer feature is another person’s ‘meh’. I’m sure that |Jensen Harris posted some usage stats from Office 2003 that showed that beyond |the first 10 or so features, the next 100 are only used by 1-2% of the population, |but different 1%s, so eliminating a feature isn’t really possible | |b) In terms of surfacing features to the user, the Ribbon is pretty good. Much |better and scalable than the toolbars, menus, task panes and all the other stuff |that pre-dated it. I’m pretty sure Jensen also had some graphs showing the |growth in features (and the concurrent increase in toolbars etc and how |unsustainable it was going to be) | | | |http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/table-of-contents.aspx |makes for fascinating reading (showing the depth of analysis and work that went |into rethinking the UI) | | | |http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2006/04/04/568249.aspx feature |bloat in Office | | | |Cheers | |Ken | | | |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere |Sent: Monday, 13 May 2013 4:20 PM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: RE: Is Surface really failing? (tangent # 99) | | | |If you use Powerpoint and Access extensively your mileage may vary but other |than for a few minor niceties in Outlook I can’t think of a single ‘killer feature’ |added to the core Office programs (ie Word, Excel and Outlook) between Office |2003 and Office 2013 which even remotely compels me to upgrade if the licenses |weren’t included anyway with my MSDN subscription (maybe faster large file |handling in 64 bit versions?). The only significant reason that I upgrade is |OneNote. Other than for that I’d be perfectly happy sticking with 2003, |‘supported’ or not (and when’s the last time Microsoft consumer-level support |provided anything of value anyway?) | | | |Speaking solely from a user perspective, it’s not that dissimilar to the Win8 |situation. Why expect people to re-learn what they already know how to do more |efficiently for the sole sake of ‘keeping up’? Where’s the benefit to the user? | |
