Give Me Freedom or Give Me Tabs
While it’s practically overkill to complain about anything in regards to Microsoft, sometimes it’s very therapeutic. So here we go.
Although there were a lot of the new improvements that Microsoft Office 2007 offered when it was first released, the biggest possible change they could have made is still completely and utterly missing in action. Not even a nod in the right direction to give us hopes for the future or anything. It is nothing more than absolute disappointment.
What feature do I speak of, you may ask? Tabs! Tabs for heaven’s sake! Would it seriously be that hard to implement, Microsoft? Perhaps try replacing a pointless Internet Explorer task with this one because only God truly knows how much you’ve rewritten the rules of web development in the past decade. Seriously — come on!
I don’t know about you but personally, I always have a boat-load of different Office windows open. Each of them is for a different use. I don’t do this because I’m an idiot and have problems closing things, nor am I a window hoarder. No, I need to have each of these documents open throughout the day — I seriously do. It’s directly related to what I do for a living, if you must know. A tab system would make my life exponentially more organized and efficient.
Come on, Microsoft! No one cares that you spend your days creating extra avatars to replace Clippy, the least used aspect of Office. It’s Microsoft Office! If you can manage to use Clippy then you’ve mastered some of the deepest secrets of the big-O. If you don’t know how to use it by now then there is just no hope for you anyway.
Give me FREEDOM or give me TABS!
I don’t think it’s too much to ask. If anything, the transition would give Microsoft Office a leaping advantage over Open Office, not that it’s much of a rivalry. Sometimes I am under the presumption that more profit is not in Microsoft’s business plan. I probably shouldn’t try to make sense of a mega-corporation’s actions because then I’ve already lost. There’s absolutely no way for us mortals to understand why they do some of the things they do. If you do manage to figure it out, your head is bound to explode soon thereafter leaving a mess that even Microsoft can’t clean up. Speaking of which, I need some asperin.
I suppose it’s not even worth it. They probably knew exactly what they were doing all along and will release tabs in the next version, just as Bill planned back in 1963. Petition anyone? No? Going overboard? Fine, I’m going to eat some leftover turkey to drown my sorrows away. Here’s to you, Microsoft.
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