[drbuzzard]

Heck, even 2008 Server indulged the idiocy of changing interfaces for the heck of it rather than to improve things. The entire way of using the GPO administrative application changed. You basically had to completely unlearn the process and learn the new one. What crack smoking moron decided to do that to SysAdmins?

I took a class on writing user interfaces some time ago, and it was a pretty basic rule that you don’t yank the rug out from under users and make them relearn everything without a damned good reason. Microsoft seems to like doing it on a lark.

[chrisser]

Yeah, their server shenanigans are a whole separate rant of mine. Especially since I have both 03 and 08 boxes in production and have to keep switching between the two (not to mention the convoluted mess IIS turned into).

[zeugma]

I took a class on writing user interfaces some time ago, and it was a pretty basic rule that you don’t yank the rug out from under users and make them relearn everything without a damned good reason. Microsoft seems to like doing it on a lark.

Yeah, companies do stupid things when they don't have to care whether or not their customer likes their product, because they buy it anyway.