30 Sep 08 Notepad 2008

Notepad 2008 went all crazy

If you want to get me started on my soap box, there is no better way than to bring up Microsoft to me.  So, be warned this post is pretty much a rant upon rants about my favorite rant topic: Microsoft.

So here is how the rant is going to go down.  Most of us know in Office 2007 the wonderful Microcrap decided to change the user interface (aka UI) of the applications within Office.  MS decided to call this interface change something ribbon, something another.  All I know is it sucks big time!!  I have many people tell me they really dislike it and doesn’t make sense, but what are these people to do?  There is nothing they can do.  It is the latest version of the Office suite and there is nothing out in the mainstream to takes it place.  This is the craziest thing I have ever heard of.  I am just one guy with this opinion and I am sure MS has some logic behind it I will never understand.  I am sure it has something to do with trying to bring about change and have people totally rethink how they think about office applications.  Am I right here?  MS is trying to pave the way to being different and ahead of the curve here to stay in the game.  Ok, alright I can see that and I can understand it.  I think they have gone WAY too far this time.

Notepad is one of the applications I use the most in good ole Winders.  It is simple.  It loads fast and there is no smart spell checker to tell me I misspelled MicroCrap.  I think notepad is the createst HTML editor besides vi and so when I came across this article at LifeHacker for the new notepadd 2008 and how MS had updated it to include the stupid freakin ribbon interface update I was outraged.  Aren’t you?  This is just stupid!!  Why in the world do I need to change my font face in notepad.  That is what wordpad is for.  This is yet another reason why I really really dislike Microsoft.  They want to make my life better by giving me more and I want less.

Thanks I feel better now.

Tags: microcrap