Odds and Ends

re: Odds and Ends

jensenh — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:40:56 GMT

Chris:

The Ford Escape hybrid came out more than a year before the Lexus H, hence I give them credit for getting it to market before anyone else.

re: Odds and Ends

jensenh — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:39:21 GMT

Simon:

I don't get to name the product, nor do I get to have influence on it. But I've definitely experienced the same thing with support family members as well.

re: Odds and Ends

Simon Jones — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:02:26 GMT

If it is called "Office Vista" for real I will scream. You made this mistake twice before, once with Office XP and Windows XP and before that by renaming what was "Internet Mail & News" to "Outlook Express". Both cases confused the hell out of the users and caused endless problems for support people. Users would report "I've got a problem with Outlook" or "Should I reinstall XP?" and the IT support people have to try and work out which "Outlook" or which "XP" they mean.

Don't make the same mistake again. Make sure Office 12 gets a distinctly different tag.

Simon Jones
Contributing Editor
Office Applications
PC Pro Magazine

re: Odds and Ends

Max Palmer — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:54:51 GMT

Jensen,

One area that you have mentioned in your blog that was of particular interest to me was the gadget you wrote for getting user feedback while they use Office. Could you expand on this at some stage, i.e. how did the tool appear to the user, what was the quality of feedback like, etc ?

Max

re: Odds and Ends

Maurice — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:24:18 GMT

My guess would be copy, paste, cut, bold, and font size.

re: Odds and Ends

ChrisC — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:43:50 GMT

Jensen,

Hybrids
(1) Did you forget about the Lexus H?
Or is there some reason to not consider it a `full featured` SUV.
I was going to look into one... until I found out that the first 6+ months worth were already sold out (about last Fall I think)

(2) Maybe you could publish the oddist command in the list tomorrow - giving us a hint

(3) What was the deal with the scrambled up comments on Monday... am I the only one seeing it? They look right if you view the HTML. (not that I think I win; IE 6 sp2 textsize=medium; if you want more details I can provide you with a friend`s name in MS who can give you my contact info - I won`t be offended if you don`t care ;-)

-Chris C.

re: Odds and Ends

Mr. Dee — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:47:20 GMT

My guess:
1) Open
2) Save
3) Copy
4) Spelling correction via squiggle contex menu
5) E-mail

re: Odds and Ends

William Swanson — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:09:21 GMT

My guess:
1) Paste
2) Cut
3) Copy
4) Spelling correction via squiggle contex menu
5) Font size

re: Odds and Ends

Julia — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:01:01 GMT

My guesses for top 5 commands

spellcheck
bullets/numbers
save
print
help

re: Odds and Ends

Abigail — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:27:38 GMT

According to http://www.nanowrimo.org, a novel is 50,000 words. :)