Thanks, Microsoft!

[billroper]

We're in the process of upgrading to Visual Studio 2010 here at work. Normally, this would make me very happy, but it turns out that Microsoft has decided that they no longer need to provide BRIEF keyboard emulation, because there just aren't enough people who care about it.

I'm not sure how they figured this out, but the one thing that seems apparent is that the people who care about it really care about it -- and that Microsoft doesn't give a damn.

The fact that Microsoft doesn't give a damn is, I suppose, no great surprise, but deciding to annoy one of the only people in the department who doesn't actively dislike them is probably stupid.

*sigh*

Comments

[madfilkentist]

Microsoft must have a department dedicated to devising user interface changes that will annoy people. In Outlook, they've decided that using control-W to close windows is no longer satisfactory; you have to use the finger-twisting alt-F4.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

That's the Windows Explorer standard. Not MSIE; the file and folder navigator, analogous to the Mac's Finder. Let's hear it for DRAWKCAB COMPATIBILITY!

[it-aint-easy.livejournal.com]

Ah Brief, how I miss you. I finally gave up on using the Brief emulation in VS a couple of jobs back, after I had too many cases of confusion when someone else used my computer, or I theirs. But it was the best.

[billroper]

Yeah, working on someone else's machine is a pain.

But Brief is wonderfully efficient. *sigh*