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[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Microsoft loves popups. It feels like it is at least a few times that MS office puts a pop up in front of some button that I’m going to click to tell me about a new feature that I won’t use. Admittedly, I don’t know how to tell users about new features in a better way, but annoying users can’t be right.

[-] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I remember an old anecdote from sometime around 2005, that Microsoft did a survey to see what features people wanted added to the Office suite, of the top 10 requested features, 8 were already in the products and the users didn't know about them.

The whole suite was bloated with stuff most people didn't need, or at least very rarely needed, but no one wanted to take time to take a class on Excel, or read patch notes, or whatever.

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