Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

2010-07-03 Thread Martin Baxter
Part of the reason my friend did what he did with his EULA was for exactly
that reason, because so many people don't read the fine print before putting
down their John Hancock. I know I didn't before that. Now, I close my door
to allow mself to read it without interruption.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 Majority of the people do not read the end user agreement or terms of
 service because they are usually very long and complicated. M$ has been
 tinkering around with their eula for a long time.

 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 Mt friend stopped doing it because one of the few folks who noticed it
 threatened to call the cops if he tried to call in the claim. Another friend
 of ours, a lawyer, said that he had a fair chance of winning the case, but
 it would cost him cash that he didn't have.


 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 I remember back in the early 90s a software company did something
 similar. They offered a piece of software that was an SDK and said that if
 anyone sells a product with it they would have to pay them $10k, which was
 an outrageous amount of money at the time. It worked twice for them until
 there was a lawsuit behind it. The creators of the SDK lost in court.

 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Martin Baxter 
 martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user
 agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP
 software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he
 included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all
 rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only
 three people caught that language.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote:



 In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They
 have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com
  wrote:



 In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
 software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...


 

 How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

- By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ 
 [image:
Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
- June 29, 2010  |
- 8:07 pm  |
- Categories: 
 Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
-

   For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse
 clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the
 world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way 
 millions
 of people work.
 “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to
 do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

 Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its
 productivity suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta
 version to test the software and provide feedback. As part of the 
 program,
 Microsoft collected 2 million comments from beta testers. An additional 
 600
 people participated in Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato 
 and
 her colleagues could observe how people were using new features.

 Read More
 http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX


 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
 hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/




 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
 hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/




 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
 wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
  




-- 
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik


Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

2010-07-03 Thread Mr. Worf
At one point in the late 90s the eulas were over 10 pages long! They seem to
be trimming them back a little now. Facebook just had some problems with
their eula about a week ago.

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 Part of the reason my friend did what he did with his EULA was for exactly
 that reason, because so many people don't read the fine print before putting
 down their John Hancock. I know I didn't before that. Now, I close my door
 to allow mself to read it without interruption.


 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 Majority of the people do not read the end user agreement or terms of
 service because they are usually very long and complicated. M$ has been
 tinkering around with their eula for a long time.

 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Martin Baxter 
 martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 Mt friend stopped doing it because one of the few folks who noticed it
 threatened to call the cops if he tried to call in the claim. Another friend
 of ours, a lawyer, said that he had a fair chance of winning the case, but
 it would cost him cash that he didn't have.


 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote:



 I remember back in the early 90s a software company did something
 similar. They offered a piece of software that was an SDK and said that if
 anyone sells a product with it they would have to pay them $10k, which was
 an outrageous amount of money at the time. It worked twice for them until
 there was a lawsuit behind it. The creators of the SDK lost in court.

 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Martin Baxter 
 martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user
 agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP
 software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, 
 he
 included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all
 rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only
 three people caught that language.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote:



 In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time.
 They have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter 
 martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote:



 In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of
 M$'s software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...


 

 How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

- By Brian X. Chenhttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ 
 [image:
Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
- June 29, 2010  |
- 8:07 pm  |
- Categories: 
 Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
-

   For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse
 clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the
 world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way 
 millions
 of people work.
 “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to
 do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

 Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its
 productivity suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta
 version to test the software and provide feedback. As part of the 
 program,
 Microsoft collected 2 million comments from beta testers. An additional 
 600
 people participated in Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where 
 Carlevato and
 her colleagues could observe how people were using new features.

 Read More
 http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX


 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
 hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/




 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
 hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/




 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
 hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/




 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
 wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik


 




-- 
Celebrating 10 years of 

Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

2010-07-02 Thread Martin Baxter
Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user
agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP
software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he
included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all
rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only
three people caught that language.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They
 have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
 software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...


 

 How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

- By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ [image:
Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
- June 29, 2010  |
- 8:07 pm  |
- Categories: 
 Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
-

   For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse
 clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the
 world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions
 of people work.
 “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.”
 –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

 Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity
 suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the
 software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2
 million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in
 Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could
 observe how people were using new features.

 Read More
 http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX


 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
 wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
  




-- 
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik


Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

2010-07-02 Thread Mr. Worf
I remember back in the early 90s a software company did something similar.
They offered a piece of software that was an SDK and said that if anyone
sells a product with it they would have to pay them $10k, which was an
outrageous amount of money at the time. It worked twice for them until there
was a lawsuit behind it. The creators of the SDK lost in court.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user
 agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP
 software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he
 included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all
 rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only
 three people caught that language.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They
 have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
 software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...


 

 How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

- By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ 
 [image:
Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
- June 29, 2010  |
- 8:07 pm  |
- Categories: 
 Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
-

   For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse
 clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the
 world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions
 of people work.
 “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to
 do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

 Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity
 suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the
 software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2
 million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in
 Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could
 observe how people were using new features.

 Read More
 http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX


 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
 hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/




 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
 wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik


 




-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/


Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

2010-07-02 Thread Martin Baxter
Mt friend stopped doing it because one of the few folks who noticed it
threatened to call the cops if he tried to call in the claim. Another friend
of ours, a lawyer, said that he had a fair chance of winning the case, but
it would cost him cash that he didn't have.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 I remember back in the early 90s a software company did something similar.
 They offered a piece of software that was an SDK and said that if anyone
 sells a product with it they would have to pay them $10k, which was an
 outrageous amount of money at the time. It worked twice for them until there
 was a lawsuit behind it. The creators of the SDK lost in court.

 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user
 agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP
 software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he
 included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all
 rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only
 three people caught that language.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They
 have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter 
 martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
 software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...


 

 How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

- By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ 
 [image:
Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
- June 29, 2010  |
- 8:07 pm  |
- Categories: 
 Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
-

   For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse
 clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the
 world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions
 of people work.
 “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to
 do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

 Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its
 productivity suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta
 version to test the software and provide feedback. As part of the program,
 Microsoft collected 2 million comments from beta testers. An additional 600
 people participated in Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato 
 and
 her colleagues could observe how people were using new features.

 Read More
 http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX


 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
 hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/




 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
 wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
  




-- 
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik


Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

2010-07-02 Thread Mr. Worf
Majority of the people do not read the end user agreement or terms of
service because they are usually very long and complicated. M$ has been
tinkering around with their eula for a long time.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 Mt friend stopped doing it because one of the few folks who noticed it
 threatened to call the cops if he tried to call in the claim. Another friend
 of ours, a lawyer, said that he had a fair chance of winning the case, but
 it would cost him cash that he didn't have.


 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote:



 I remember back in the early 90s a software company did something similar.
 They offered a piece of software that was an SDK and said that if anyone
 sells a product with it they would have to pay them $10k, which was an
 outrageous amount of money at the time. It worked twice for them until there
 was a lawsuit behind it. The creators of the SDK lost in court.

 On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user
 agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP
 software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he
 included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all
 rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only
 three people caught that language.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote:



 In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They
 have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time.

 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter 
 martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
 software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...


 

 How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

- By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ 
 [image:
Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
- June 29, 2010  |
- 8:07 pm  |
- Categories: 
 Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
-

   For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse
 clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the
 world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions
 of people work.
 “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to
 do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

 Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its
 productivity suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta
 version to test the software and provide feedback. As part of the program,
 Microsoft collected 2 million comments from beta testers. An additional 
 600
 people participated in Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato 
 and
 her colleagues could observe how people were using new features.

 Read More
 http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX


 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
 hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/




 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody
 hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik





 --
 Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
 Mahogany at:
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/




 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
 wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik


 




-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/


[scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

2010-07-01 Thread Martin Baxter
In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...



How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

   - By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ [image:
   Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
   - June 29, 2010  |
   - 8:07 pm  |
   - Categories:
Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
   -

  For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks
and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her
objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people
work.
“We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.”
–Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity
suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the
software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2
million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in
Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could
observe how people were using new features.

Read More
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX


-- 
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik


Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf
In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They have
been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote:



 In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
 software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...


 

 How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

- By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ [image:
Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com
- June 29, 2010  |
- 8:07 pm  |
- Categories: 
 Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/
-

   For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks
 and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her
 objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people
 work.
 “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.”
 –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough

 Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity
 suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the
 software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2
 million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in
 Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could
 observe how people were using new features.

 Read More
 http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX


 --
 If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
 wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik


 




-- 
Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/