re: An Upper Case of Indecisive Instruction

Alex Homer — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:19:17 GMT

Hi Daniel, thanks for the feedback. Yes I'm aware of the comments around VS (see my previous blog posts) and obviously I can't speak on behalf of the development teams. However, in many places I think the new style is really attractive. For example, most people I talk to prefer the new Windows Azure web portal that uses this style over the old one. Though I do still need to figure out how to document it...

re: An Upper Case of Indecisive Instruction

Daniel Smith — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:41:43 GMT

Does Microsoft have some sort of filter that's preventing staff from seeing the mountains of feedback on the all-caps topic? Even if only a fraction of the feedback is getting through to you guys, there's no way the all-caps issue is "fairly balanced between like and dislike".

It's currently voted the number 7 most important issue across the *entire* Visual Studio product! See here:

visualstudio.uservoice.com/.../2837384-change-all-caps-menu-in-vs-rc-to-vs-beta-format-fi

Most issues get a few hundred votes if they're really popular. This one has literally thousands.

It's crazy in every conceivable way, including the problems it causes with documentation as you rightly point out.

People are just lost for words at the craziness of it all :-/