On 09/08/2011 01:16 p.m., Paul Hill wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Jarvis, Matthew<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Well I guess you need to play more with international environments. >>> Your keyboard is mapped to a language. Characters in Russian have a >>> different ID on the keyboard then my US-EN keyboard. >>> >>> This sets up you your numbers, money, time, date just to name a few. >> It didn't occur to him to open up and READ the Quick Start Guide that >> certainly came with the machine? > It was written in Albanian.
Not really. The default keyboard setting for a product sold in America was Albanian. This lad is not trained as a user, is not paid to be a user. MS engineers are trained and paid to design good user interfaces. And in my book a good interface is one that will not permit a user to go wrong, and if he does will permit an easy recovery. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
