Bruce,
>>Secondly, the political issue of getting the manager to let you adopt them woulbd be, I suppose, to use the old "if you don't use them you'll be left behind and that's not good for careers" ploy. <g>
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>>Presuming you've satisfied yourself as to the functional value of course... <g>
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>Well, not that I like the herd mentality, but if a feature is strongly "in vogue" you may as well go with it, or be left looking "dinosaurish" and indeed that may be bad for careers. I guess some of the users will like the toolbar upgrade too.
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>But it's still eye candy, mainly, isn't it?
Sure. At least unless and until MSFT can demonstrate via their useability studies that it is otherwise.
Best,
DD
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