There is no reason why an Office suite shouldn't be good at it. We have web browsers now that can render PDF documents, you know.

Maintaining reasonable standards of quality keeps the populace of your beta-testers happy. By losing on the goodwill of volunteers, you lose the people you wanted to test and buy your products. It's a good business practice to maintain cordial relationship with customers.

Because waiting for the people who are late is not a good strategy for those who want to move forward.

I still use Firefox, mostly when I need to work with resources no longer supported by Chrome. Firefox is reliable, open and backward compatible to larger extent than Chrome. That said, Chrome is my activity center, with integrated mail, calendar, social updates, notes - all synced painlessly from platform to platform.

And Richard Adams (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38446309). :/

And the Oscar for the best performance goes to... Your statements are like these Russian soldiers, who accidentally got "lost" along with heavy carrier in a middle of foreign country. Please tell me that at least you're getting decently paid for such posts, and that you're not another misguided soul who thinks that big political bullies are meant to be worshiped.

Damn. I wish I could you mod you up Informative.

Regards,
Ruemere

Win7 does not support certain older hardware. Your fax, your trusty scanner, ye olde printer...

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Ruemere

Mhm. This is probably the point where we should draw our lightsabers and beat each other with our experiences.
Would you accept a conciliatory truism of "sometimes life ain't perfect" instead?

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Ruemere

Untrue for hybrid corporate environment. You get some kind of UAC related prompt almost every time you want to access resources on the network (and don't, please don't get me started on Enable Editing dialog of Office 2010...). It used to drive me crazy until I have decided to live with this - I just click it away (and hope that my antivirus will deal with a wrong click - if I ever do one).

Once upon a time, a golden rule was that - if you need more than two clicks to get to the goal, the interface is a failure. I wish Microsoft designers heeded this lesson.

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Ruemere

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Disclaimer: I may be biased since I really wanted to like and to use Google+ service. Since they could not accept my preference to use a well-established nick instead of my real name, I've quit. Almost a year later, my profile is still suspended. I still cannot set my status in GoogleTalk.
I wish I could raise this with some support service, but... it's not really there. Google's motto should probably change to something like Don't be evil -- disclaimer: we don't give a damn.

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Precisely... as in "precisely why I do not need to use their service". If you do not care about customers of your service, be it free or paid, they will wander away.

Disclaimer: I may be biased I really wanted to like and use Google+ service. Since they could accept my preference to use a well-established nick instead of my real name, I've quit. Almost a year later, my profile is still suspended. I still cannot set my status in GoogleTalk.
I wish I could raise this with some support service, but... it's not really there. Google's motto should probably change to something like Don't be evil -- disclaimer: we don't give a damn .

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Ruemere

Read it and hated it for what he did to Pirx... also, the collective bout of intense stupidity at the end of the novel also left somewhat cold.

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Ruemere

I beg to disagree. While PowerShell does appear to be quite crippled (no support for scripts out of the box, access rights issues thanks to UAC), it still allows to do a lot of things previous scripting shells (VBS, WMI, DOS-like CLI) for Windows struggled to achieve. It is also actively supported by several third party vendors (VMware's PowerCLI) and actually well documented for several major applications (Exchange 2010).

It's still quite painful to wrap one's mind around its ungainly logic. But it works (in some important cases).

And for automation of tasks you need a shell. No GUI is going to provide enterprise-wide solutions on the same level as good old shell and command line.

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Ruemere