powerpoint 2007 needs hardware graphic acceleration like 2002

[Patrick Schmid]

I did a direct test running both Word 2007 and Word 2003 with rulers
enabled

in both versions. There is definitely less document space in the 2007
version; not much less, but definitely less. My resolution was 1600 x 1200,

Read Jensen's post carefully. He did the comparison with the
out-of-the-box configuration. In that configuration, Word 2007 does not
have the ruler always shown, but Word 97 does. From the MS point of
view, a pretty fair comparison.
The truth is that Office 2007 is just not designed for power users, but
rather for the beginner to average user. Power users get screwed all the
way in 2007 and the window visuals are a minor issue compared to the
rest...
Actually, Office's UI did need a huge overhaul. I recommend reading
Jensen's why the UI series:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/category/11720.aspx

Patrick Schmid

 

[ADR]

Read Jensen's post carefully. He did the comparison with the
out-of-the-box configuration. In that configuration, Word 2007 does not
have the ruler always shown, but Word 97 does. From the MS point of
view, a pretty fair comparison.
The truth is that Office 2007 is just not designed for power users, but
rather for the beginner to average user. Power users get screwed all the
way in 2007 and the window visuals are a minor issue compared to the
rest...
Actually, Office's UI did need a huge overhaul. I recommend reading
Jensen's why the UI series:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/category/11720.aspx

I did Jensen's blog and the flaw in his thinking is terribly obvious.
Apparently, in designing the interface, the team got statistics on which
commands are used most and prioritized them. This is really bad thinking.
One designing the UI should not worry which commands are used most but what
the users are doing mostly. And although "bold" is number 5 in terms of
frequency of use, this hardly means that this is essential and where we
spend, as users, most of our time. When designing an experiment, it is
important to define carefully what data you need to collect. In this case,
some screwey programmer decided that it would be useful for MS to collect
data on the frequency of commands used. Although I use the "bold" command
numerically more often than the "outline" command, getting the latter right
is much more important to me than streamlining the "bold" command for which I
can write an easy macro. I am stunned by the fact that nobody in MS thought
of prioritizing commands on the basis of their importance than in their
frequency of usage. This is again a typical approach by design teams, they
make assumptions that may or may not be shared by users and we end up with
flawed products (and most are flawed).

 

[Scott S]

Thank you! It's still slow (compared to PP'03) but decreasing hardware
acceleration definetly speeded it up.