Way to go, Microsoft.
Nag the crap out of me to update from Office 2013 to Office 2016 (Office 365).
All of a sudden, every time I type an @ sign in an email, drop down of a bunch of email addresses intrudes into editor (and slows it down).
What is this? No clue in settings/options. Search various MS bulletin boards and find that the new feature is called “mentions” and there is NO WAY to turn off the option.
Which UI designers thought it was a good idea to introduce a potentially intrusive and unwanted new feature into the Outlook Editor with no way to let the user turn it off?
Microsoft might fret about how hard it is to get people to migrate to new versions of Office or Windows, but the way they screw with the UI to confuse/frustrate and slow us down is the reason we cling to prior versions.
What, Microsoft letting self-imposed UI design changes interfere with usability? The same guys that gave us Windows 8, and then forced Windows 10 down current [del]victims’[/del] users’ throats? Ignoring our preferences and our user experience in favor of a “vastly improved” (just ask 'em!) user experience? Inconceivable!
They’re the smartest guys in the room, and they can prove it, even if they have to give you brain damage to do it.
“When someone shows you their true self, believe them.”
Wait until you do “upgrade” <snicker> to Office 365. The kind IT folks in my day job forced us all to upgrade to this piece of shinola and I’m hating it. I’m not the kind of person who hates all change - I do embrace changes that are good. But this… no, sorry.
Microsoft has forced a one-size-fits-all shopping/playing/surfing user experience onto the corporate users, so we now have stupid shit like a shopping button in Outlook that we can’t remove or hide. It also has the tablet user interface functionality on my laptop/mouse configuration that I’m forced to use. The new start menu is atrocious.
And then they topped it off by “upgrading” our Sharepoint (which was iffy to begin with) to Sharepoint-in-the-cloud and every little bit of my job is now a real struggle. :mad:
Edited to add: Oh, there’s also a new Xbox icon in the start menu that you can’t remove! I mean, like what the fuck?
I already have Office 365. Just gave in and upgraded Office 2013 to 2016 via that subscription. Win 7 Enterprise, do not have shopping or xbox button or other annoyances, I guess that will come with Win 10.