Re: Internet Explorer 8
D. Spencer Hines
It's looks as if IE8 has been designed by the same Pastel-Pansy Brigade that
designed WLM.
Incredibly Stupid GUI.
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> "Gary VanderMolen" <ga...@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
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>> It's a crapshoot. A small percentage of WM users are not able to open
>> attachments after installing IE8.
>
>
> Besides, IE8 uses the same poor contrast scheme as WLM. I went to my
> ophthalmologist yesterday and took my laptop to show him the stupid,
> low-contrast colors chosen by Microsoft. He agreed that the pastel colors
> were some of the worst for contrast that could be chosen. He also said
> many older people (like me) would have problems reading the gray text.
> Fortunately Microsoft lets you undo updates like this with just a few
> clicks, and I went back to IE7. I also hid the update so my computer
> would not constantly remind me to download this "important" update. IE8
> may have some useful new features, but if I cannot read the screens the
> program is worthless.
>
> Dr. Barry L. Ornitz BLOrn...@charter.net
>
> And yes, I did complain about this to Microsoft.
D. Spencer Hines
Good Points.
It looks as if IE8 has been designed by the same Pastel-Pansy Brigade that
GbH
> "Gary VanderMolen" <ga...@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
> news:%23yvg9JS...@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> It's a crapshoot. A small percentage of WM users are not able to open
>> attachments after installing IE8.
>
>
> Besides, IE8 uses the same poor contrast scheme as WLM. I went to my
> ophthalmologist yesterday and took my laptop to show him the stupid,
> low-contrast colors chosen by Microsoft. He agreed that the pastel
> colors were some of the worst for contrast that could be chosen. He
> also said many older people (like me) would have problems reading the
> gray text.
> Fortunately Microsoft lets you undo updates like this with just a few
> clicks, and I went back to IE7. I also hid the update so my computer
> would not constantly remind me to download this "important" update.
> IE8 may have some useful new features, but if I cannot read the
> screens the program is worthless.
>
> Dr. Barry L. Ornitz BLOrn...@charter.net
>
> And yes, I did complain about this to Microsoft.
It would seem there is a massive dislike of this latest WLM interface,
supported by the professionals in the relevant field, well at least one,
so much so I would suggest to MSFT there should be an intermediate
release forthwith to revert that part to the previous version. As I
understand it that is what has been done in-house.
I did not know it was the same 'theme' in IE8, a darn good reason not to
install IE8!
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