Comments on: Usability Analysis – Office 2010 on Windows 7 http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/articles/usability-analysis-office-2010-on-windows-7/ iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone Development and Usability Guidelines Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:53:00 +0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: FalconFour http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/articles/usability-analysis-office-2010-on-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-2734 FalconFour Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:52:00 +0000 http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/?p=256#comment-2734 (Hey, Facebook "Connect" isn't working here, just gives a blank response from your website URL after "allowing" the page on FB's URL in the popup window. Maybe something to look into?) Love the points on Excel... can't believe MS release Office 2010 and **STILL** hasn't given Excel a SDI. I'd think Excel would be the #1 application people would want to have an SDI for, to compare two spreadsheets as mentioned. At the office I work at, the accountants are being driven crazy by Excel 2010's terrible "single instance, multiple hidden documents" BS. They have two monitors but can't snap Excel "into two pieces" to bring a spreadsheet over to the other screen, unless they manually open another Excel instance over there... but then documents opened from Explorer appear in the instance they don't belong. It's entirely irritating and wholly unnecessary... one worse, Windows 7's new taskbar behavior makes it look like there are two Excel windows, when there's only one. MS really dropped the ball on Excel 2010 with the whole MDI thing. You're right, I'd think they'd do some usability testing, and maybe update that decade-old UI... (Hey, Facebook “Connect” isn’t working here, just gives a blank response from your website URL after “allowing” the page on FB’s URL in the popup window. Maybe something to look into?)

Love the points on Excel… can’t believe MS release Office 2010 and **STILL** hasn’t given Excel a SDI. I’d think Excel would be the #1 application people would want to have an SDI for, to compare two spreadsheets as mentioned. At the office I work at, the accountants are being driven crazy by Excel 2010′s terrible “single instance, multiple hidden documents” BS. They have two monitors but can’t snap Excel “into two pieces” to bring a spreadsheet over to the other screen, unless they manually open another Excel instance over there… but then documents opened from Explorer appear in the instance they don’t belong. It’s entirely irritating and wholly unnecessary… one worse, Windows 7′s new taskbar behavior makes it look like there are two Excel windows, when there’s only one.

MS really dropped the ball on Excel 2010 with the whole MDI thing. You’re right, I’d think they’d do some usability testing, and maybe update that decade-old UI…

]]> By: Acoustimass http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/articles/usability-analysis-office-2010-on-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-2334 Acoustimass Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:55:26 +0000 http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/?p=256#comment-2334 Hi there,I enjoy skim through your article post, Usability Analysis – Office 2010 on Windows 7 | MK Blog , I think I have learn something and therefore would like to write a little comment to support you and wish you a good continuation......It shows that u really have put alot of effort for your blog. Hi there,I enjoy skim through your article post, Usability Analysis – Office 2010 on Windows 7 | MK Blog , I think I have learn something and therefore would like to write a little comment to support you and wish you a good continuation……It shows that u really have put alot of effort for your blog.

]]> By: mugunthkumar http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/articles/usability-analysis-office-2010-on-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-1682 mugunthkumar Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:24:04 +0000 http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/?p=256#comment-1682 It still prevents you from opening multiple excel files with same filename, unfortunately. No worthy competition in this arena so far. Open Office can't even come near it. So microsoft is kinda ignoring this totally and releasing new versions just by updating the version number... It still prevents you from opening multiple excel files with same filename, unfortunately. No worthy competition in this arena so far. Open Office can't even come near it. So microsoft is kinda ignoring this totally and releasing new versions just by updating the version number…

]]> By: Tassy J http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/articles/usability-analysis-office-2010-on-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-1681 Tassy J Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:19:32 +0000 http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/?p=256#comment-1681 Damn. I was looking forward to a purely SDI Excel, that was the only reason I was looking forward to Office 2010. You'd think that by releasing an office suite using the year as a version number, they would re-consider using outdated UI design patterns. Did you try opening multiple spreadsheets with the same filename from different folders? It would be interesting (and pathetic) to see if the app still prevented that from happening. Damn. I was looking forward to a purely SDI Excel, that was the only reason I was looking forward to Office 2010. You'd think that by releasing an office suite using the year as a version number, they would re-consider using outdated UI design patterns. Did you try opening multiple spreadsheets with the same filename from different folders? It would be interesting (and pathetic) to see if the app still prevented that from happening.

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