Miscellaneous Tech News
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Teams is now free: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-teams-now-available-use-free. I haven't used it, so I don't know how good it is, but if nothing else it will push Slack to innovate.
We have it, but I have no need to use it. It's just using memory on my system. The interface is weird at a minimum and the program is just clunky.
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce Not really changes to the ribbon, they are actually moving back to menus.
Interesting. I wonder if it was because people were losing too much real estate on smaller screens, like the 2-in-1s.
More likely it was a big selling point of competitors that they didn't use the ribbon that so many people disliked.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce Not really changes to the ribbon, they are actually moving back to menus.
Interesting. I wonder if it was because people were losing too much real estate on smaller screens, like the 2-in-1s.
More likely it was a big selling point of competitors that they didn't use the ribbon that so many people disliked.
But quite a few other applications followed suit to make their apps look similar. Off the top of my head, Nitro PDF was one.
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce Not really changes to the ribbon, they are actually moving back to menus.
Interesting. I wonder if it was because people were losing too much real estate on smaller screens, like the 2-in-1s.
More likely it was a big selling point of competitors that they didn't use the ribbon that so many people disliked.
But quite a few other applications followed suit to make their apps look similar. Off the top of my head, Nitro PDF was one.
Yeah, lots that people don't like either
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce Not really changes to the ribbon, they are actually moving back to menus.
Interesting. I wonder if it was because people were losing too much real estate on smaller screens, like the 2-in-1s.
More likely it was a big selling point of competitors that they didn't use the ribbon that so many people disliked.
But quite a few other applications followed suit to make their apps look similar. Off the top of my head, Nitro PDF was one.
Yeah, lots that people don't like either
lol
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce Not really changes to the ribbon, they are actually moving back to menus.
Interesting. I wonder if it was because people were losing too much real estate on smaller screens, like the 2-in-1s.
More likely it was a big selling point of competitors that they didn't use the ribbon that so many people disliked.
But quite a few other applications followed suit to make their apps look similar. Off the top of my head, Nitro PDF was one.
Just because other products follow someone's lead, doesn't mean people (like me), like the change. Just look at how well Ubuntu did with their desktop interface mimicking Windows single interface for tablets and computers.
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I don't mind the ribbon. It's probably that I got used to it. I know my users have. I expect something just shy of pandemonium when this gets pushed out.
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I don't mind the ribbon. It's probably that I got used to it. I know my users have. I expect something just shy of pandemonium when this gets pushed out.
I remember the pandemonium when the original ribbon got rolled out. That was one of the factors in moving everyone to LibreOffice.
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The new interface has menu driven choices as well as contextual/ribbon options that show to the right of the new menu bar, so it is a bit of hybrid.
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@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The new interface has menu driven choices as well as contextual/ribbon options that show to the right of the new menu bar, so it is a bit of hybrid.
Sounds like the worst of all worlds to me. I'll have to take a look at it sometime before summarily dismissing it.
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I know y'all are concerned... Snapchat just went down.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I know y'all are concerned... Snapchat just went down.
Nope, the whole Snapchat company could disband and I'd never even know it (until you post about it).
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I know y'all are concerned... Snapchat just went down.
Lol, it was in and out but not much
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I know y'all are concerned... Snapchat just went down.
Lol, it was in and out but not much
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@scottalanmiller what am i going to do?... oh wait, never used it before
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I'm disgusted with the EU's decision to fine Google. The EU can do one, and it looks like our government (British) is going back on the Brexit vote by not giving us the leave that we wanted. A complete mess our country is in controlled by corrupt governments.....
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I'm disgusted with the EU's decision to fine Google. The EU can do one, and it looks like our government (British) is going back on the Brexit vote by not giving us the leave that we wanted. A complete mess our country is in controlled by corrupt governments.....
I agree with the fine.
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@obsolesce consumer will pay more if Google charges manufacturers a licence fee..devices will become more expensive, it's always passed down...
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce consumer will pay more if Google charges manufacturers a licence fee..devices will become more expensive, it's always passed down...
You're not wrong, but if there is a license fee, then there can be competing solutions. It is hard to compete with free when you don't have the resources of Alphabet behind you. Google is not good for consumers in the long run.
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This is old news, but still relevant today: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2011/09/02/accelerating-your-it-career/. Despite all the changes in technology the fundamentals of being a good IT pro have not changed.
