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Up earlyish, cooked breakfast, spent a while getting Anne's
new Windows 8 computer setup - a very encouraging process: a pretty
terrible out-of-box experience, first-time setup flow crashed after
completion with part of it's work done (eg. Microsoft Account creation),
and part not done (eg. stopping the wizard from re-running on next boot).
Tons of frustration, re-entering of data, appalling usability glitches
all over the shop. One example would be installing and paying for the
MS Office 2013 download (sadly bought by my in-laws in a moment of
absent-mindedness); the install flow had whole minutes with no visible
indication that anything was going on - no visible window, hunting
through task-bars, process-managers etc. revealed nothing - before up
it would pop - 50 minutes to download something that could/should have
been pre-loaded Free Software: sad, yet marginally encouraging. From a
usability perspective, there are very significant regressions from the
apparent use of a bespoke clutter-style toolkit for things like text
entries. Trying to explain to an experienced user that yes 'To' and 'Cc'
have a nice rectangular surround denoting a field, but 'Subject' and
mail body appear ethereally dis-connected from everything and are
(apparently) an insensitive-grey-color but yet can be clicked was
interesting. Also vanishing scroll-bars on a screen with plenty of
pixel-estate for them lead to: "where did the top of my E-mail go,
and how can I get it back", sad.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
