I now have a new work laptop (the result of having a new work, I suppose) and have now moved to Windows 7 from the glorious ways of Windows XP.
Any chance of having an option so that WinScriv looks like it used to under XP? You know, with all the nice little +/- symbols in the binder and such like, not the evil nasty blandness that is the Windows 7 version?
In summary: Windows 7 = Bleeerrgh.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Umm no. Microsoft has fallen into the Apple trap. You like it the way they changed it. Trust them. They won’t steer you wrong.
Now that MS has the right “damn the customers” attitude all they need is a unix core and I might give windows a second look for home use†.
[size=60]† I say home, because I don’t really use it for anything OS-y at the office. I find that nearly all my time is spent in the corporate web interfaces to email, cal, office to avoid the inevitable “death by dell” of all my data. Got to love massively scalable SAN*.[/size]
[size=50]* If you’re sitting there thinking “what the hell is he blabbering on about” don’t worry. Nothing important. Just suffering from an inability to separate work from reality. [/size]
I’m thinking of opting out and just buying myself a nice A4 pad and a pencil.
Excellent weapons if you have the training to use them.
One master attempted to train me, but her ruler proved ineffective against my desensitized knuckles. Many found irony in the fact that the master retired mid-year, just after grading several long essays written by the formerly mentioned desensitized knuckles head.
I have been declared an enemy combatant by all readers of my attempts at stylus based thought recording. Even I give up regularly.
Apparently (so I’m told) if you use one of those pencils and spell a word wrong you don’t get a squiggly red line underneath. Is that truly progress?
I get red circles. But that’s only after manually sending the paper to the spell checker. I guess it depends on your spell checker model and how you have it set up. Mine requires frequent submissions of Oreo and Fig Newton cookies or any form of chocolate to prevent the red circles from ceasing to appear.
Yes, you can get Windows 7 looking a bit like XP, if you don’t mind going back to Windows 2000 window borders (which personally I prefer as they are more resource efficient and tidy with their space usage). To go back to classic widgets, open the start menu and type in ‘aero’ in the search field. Select ‘Change the color scheme’. You’ll have a few choices in the box, just click “Windows Classic”, and rinse away the last decade of dubious improvement.
STOP BEING SO HELPFUL!!!
It make me feel even more useless than even my daughditor claims.