Who at Microsoft thought in their infinite wisdom that they could remake the file browser but only for saving in O365. I hit save in word and it shows me some buggy list of random directories that you can’t navigate through, instead of opening a good old file explorer browse/save window. An engineer made the perfect solution 35 years ago, but that doesn’t look good enough for the new office design scheme so let’s make it nonfunctional.
Probably the same guy that thought let’s replace control panel with settings and then ended up just opening control panel from settings because it’s too hard to move functionality from one to the other.
I’m too lazy to look it up, but there is a settings in either the office products or group policy that makes it use the old open/save dialogs. I remember setting it up for an octogenarian relative who couldn’t adjust to change.
It’s not about the needs of users any more. Hasn’t been for a long time. It’s all about how can we leverage our monopoly to squeeze the maximum revenue out of users. Sadly, most people just don’t care so they get what they deserve.
Pretty sure that certain versions of the Office apps ONLY support files stored in one drive. Like you can’t open a OneNote .toc in the app version of OneNote, whether on local disk or mounted network share.
It’s one drive adjacent, but I have 1 question.
Who at Microsoft thought in their infinite wisdom that they could remake the file browser but only for saving in O365. I hit save in word and it shows me some buggy list of random directories that you can’t navigate through, instead of opening a good old file explorer browse/save window. An engineer made the perfect solution 35 years ago, but that doesn’t look good enough for the new office design scheme so let’s make it nonfunctional.
Probably the same guy that thought let’s replace control panel with settings and then ended up just opening control panel from settings because it’s too hard to move functionality from one to the other.
I’m too lazy to look it up, but there is a settings in either the office products or group policy that makes it use the old open/save dialogs. I remember setting it up for an octogenarian relative who couldn’t adjust to change.
I guess older frogs are more susceptible to temperature changes.
It’s not about the needs of users any more. Hasn’t been for a long time. It’s all about how can we leverage our monopoly to squeeze the maximum revenue out of users. Sadly, most people just don’t care so they get what they deserve.
Pretty sure that certain versions of the Office apps ONLY support files stored in one drive. Like you can’t open a OneNote .toc in the app version of OneNote, whether on local disk or mounted network share.