Hi Craig,

I'm sure that you are correct and the MS does spend millions on this.

Yet I'm also quite certain that this "complaint" in not a new phenomenon. It's bothersomeness was highly accentuated when rt-click 'property popups' came into being, and these have also been with us for some time now.
Not to mention the fact that menus have been getting deeper and deeper too.

It sure seems that their millions of $ don't result in a whole lot of useful stuff. Maybe "BOB" was one of the products of that spending.

regards,

Jim N

>>Hi Rob,
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>>While there are some 'religious windows crowd', I'd bet a bundle that the vast majority are with you on this one.
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>>That said, I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to be changed. MS doesn't seem to listen to us average folks on things like this. Geez, they don't even seem to listen to Alan Cooper, the current GURU on User Interface DEIGN.
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>>Cheers,
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>>Jim N
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>Microsoft spends millions on UI research, so it isn't like they just make things up. As for Alan Cooper...I agree that he has some excellent points that should be followed....and remember, he used to work for Microsoft.