Wireless access on Windows has never been pretty. Between the Windows supplied system tray app and all the 3rd party vendors, UI consistency is a pipe dream.
Vista has had WPA2 for a while now, but it has been flaky.
Finally, Windows XP SP3 introduces WPA2. Another reason you’ll have to pry XP from my cold fingers…after my MacBook Pro breaks that is.
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Not many disagree with the premise that it is always important to communicate. That is why I leave comments enabled on this blog. On the other hand, I just manually deleted nearly 7,000 comments. I think recaptcha is in the near future…
So one of the better known perks Microsoft employees get to enjoy is using all the internal shiny pre-release software the company develops.
About a month ago I installed Office 2007 on my work computer. It’s my slice of the internal dogfooding effort. The experience has not been without quirks and crashes here and there, but in general its been awesome. The best change so far is the Ribbon, and here’s why.
The most common Office question I get is “How do I use this specific feature?” And of course, it takes the most time to tell them where some highly buried feature actually is. The Ribbon gives everyone a visual, results-oriented UI that immediately shows you where all the features are. Features are separated with tabs just like menus, but the presentation is a lot cooler (with most changes viewable as mouseovers). Its about time Microsoft takes risks like this with interface design!
P.S. I’m posting directly from Microsoft Word 2007.