<p>Gack what the heck in the world? You want me to compose my emails in that small box on the right corner and I can’t see how it will look before sending it? You are churning with changes. You are finding things for ppl to do to justify their jobs or something. You are breaking the product. Stop over thinking the thing. I just want to write an email and I do not want to have to relearn the product every few months; I don’t have time for that. Sheesh. Leave at least a kernel of product alone so I can get my work done on my tight time frames without having to plan in “relearn how to use computer” time every few weeks. GAH!</p>
<p>Oh that’s ridiculous. Right now it’s offered as a choice–hopefully they won’t make it mandatory.</p>
<p>And yeah, I am tired of every program and computer use asking you to relearn it for no good reason that I can discern. But of course they always couch it in: “we’re doing thisfor you–lucky you!” terminology.</p>
<p>That’s the Microsoft style.</p>
<p>It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.</p>
<p>I like it.</p>
<p>Most of my emails are Q&D and it’s not all that different from writing emails on a phone.</p>
<p>It is not Microsoft style. It is moronic, just like the new format of the YFMBs (I really hope CC will NOT follow Yahoo Finance). I really do not like it, since most of my emails are NOT like phone emails. But if it works for some people AND if it is an option that I would not be forced to use - fine.</p>
<p>This is actually the opposite of what people were complaining about in the other thread dealing with the continual shrinking of products you buy. With software, we instead get Feature Creep and the continual unnecessary addition of worthless features and redesigns. Then, every few years, a new competitor comes out with a stripped-down, clean version that runs simply and perfectly. Over time, they have more features creep in and become almost as bad as what they replaced (I’m looking at you Firefox).</p>
<p>I like it.</p>
<p>It allows me to easily compose multiple emails at once.</p>
<p>@racin
Yeah, I agree Firefox → Chrome</p>
<p>My neighbor (80ish) came over yesterday panicking. She was doing work on her computer and went to start a second page. But then her first page was just gone! She came looking for help…</p>
<p>So I walked over and I think it took me about 5 minutes to figure out that she had somehow opened up a new document rather than going to a second page. </p>
<p>She uses Microsoft Works which came with her computer. My sister made the comment when I got back about how bad Works was, but my comment was “it may be an awful program, but it’s what she knows and I ain’t changing it!”</p>
<p>They need to leave things alone!</p>
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<p>Firefox started out as a slimmed-down browser and that was great back in 2000-2001 in the era of the Pentium 3 but processors in the past five years combined with huge improvements in bus speeds, disk capacities, disk/flash performance and network speeds has allowed software to grow without performance penalties. I am using two systems at home right now which use processor technologies from five and six years ago and performance is fine. I also have newer computers that are far, far faster but I don’t need to.</p>
<p>Today, you can go on Newegg and buy 16 GB of RAM for under $200; perhaps well under $200. When Firefox came out, the footprint target was generally around 32 MB. So I’m all for more features. Intel would love more software features. You used to need a high-end chip for good performance. Now their low-end Core i3s are fine. I bought i7s in the past. The last system I built had a Core i5. Hardware is getting faster faster than software is getting bigger. And that’s why Intel has a problem. And AMD too. And nVidia and ATI. And the rest of the PC ecosystem.</p>
<p>BTW, you should all try composing an email with vi.</p>
<p>Again, if it’s a choice, that’s fine. I actually don’t compose emails on a phone. Emails for me are documents and I like to see the whole thing when writing them.</p>
<p>I must have hit a random button and have now been able to figure out how to turn the thing off. Whew! I hope this isn’t one of those “you can try this for a while and turn it off until we decide it’ll be the default from now on” thingees. What bugs me the most is having to waste precious time I hadn’t planned on to figure out the new “improvements.”</p>