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Most features should be very close to done at this point. Is that a light at the end of the tunnel, or just a train approaching?
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Microsoft President Brad Smith recently spoke to a US House antitrust committee where he called out Apple’s App Store. "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
Sorry to go all, "New Testament" on you, but I really couldn't think of a more appropriate quote.
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Do what I say, but not what I do? 
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He's just jealous that the Windows Store never worked out
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Microsoft is teasing the future of its Office UI and design today, and it involves some big changes to the traditional ribbon interface. Sadly, not "removal" of the ribbon interface
"The next wave of Microsoft 365 UX changes will go even further by fading brand colors from app headers and exploring adaptive commanding". Irk
"...progressive disclosure to contextually reveal commands" OK, my gag reflex is really about to go off. Where's @DanNeely with his handy vomit icons?
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Quote: “Having your ribbon commands follow your actions and being context aware will reduce cognitive load and increase focus on the task at hand
OK. These guys no longer have a f***ing clue. The great thing about the old menu system is that I knew the 'task at hand', which was often something quite difficult, but easy to get to through the menu. Their 'task at hand' is usually simple, like inserting emojis with your text. And the difficult 'real task' has been buried under three or more additional clicks and 'memory indirects.' (Because if the screen width changes, the 'icon' is often no longer visible, or where you thought it was.)
Kent Sharkey wrote: Where's @DanNeely with his handy vomit icons?
A hundred billion times this! 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sadly, not "removal" of the ribbon interface
I like the ribbon interface. When it first came out I thought it was terrible but then after actually using it I found that I like it much more.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Why doesn't it surprise me?
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Because I don't hate Microsoft just to fit in around here. Silly me. 
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I don't hate them...
And I didn't say it in meaning that. I meant it more in the "no surprise that you say it". You are the specialist finding counter-arguments for almost every possible conversation 
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Nelek wrote: finding counter-arguments
That's easy, but I only do it when they are honest opinions of mine.
Speaking of which, I'd really like to know what everyone is so upset about a few threads down below regarding Elon Musk piping directly to the brain. Apparently I have a different point of view again and I don't understand what everyone is so upset about.
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MS is doing a wonderful job in promoting LibreOffice just because they are unable to bring back the classical menu.
They confound different and better.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Teasing something new.. They undermining the default UI, trying to be the next best thing (and never are).
They are not recognizable in general as part of the normal UI, don't increase production, add costs for the new UI without adding profit, and generally piss me off.
The Office UI is a school-example of bad habits. Over the years it has proven to be a river of idiots, and it keeps proving exactly that. It should be disbanded and all participants fired.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Microsoft rolls out public preview of a new data encryption feature specifically designed for companies in highly-regulated environments, such as financial services and healthcare. "Then as of this moment, they're on double secret probation!"
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Quote: "It uses two keys to protect your data - one key in your control, and a second key is stored securely in Microsoft Azure.
I've never used it, but my spidey senses are tingling.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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jeron1 wrote: but my spidey senses are tingling.
tingling? My nuclear alarms are yelling...
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jeron1 wrote: and a second key is stored securely in Microsoft Azure
To make it easily retrieved by the government through a subpoena.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: retrieved by the government through a subpoena.
An optimist I see. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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An international collaboration of over a hundred astrophysicists has released a map that details over two million galaxies and quasars and eleven billion years of our universe. Just wait until they try refolding it
edit: fixed URL
modified 22-Jul-20 10:39am.
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Odd, clicking the link gave me a 404, for the following.
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs-pr/pull/123161[^]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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dang, fixing. Thank you
TTFN - Kent
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Of course if you like, you could approve that PR for me
TTFN - Kent
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