Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by Arainach on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:16PM (#33779807)

It's still "File -> Save a Copy" (2 clicks) and I'm on an October build that's as new as it gets externally as far as I know: 2210 Build 16.0.15726.20188.

The overlap of "users still using Microsoft Office" and "users using local storage" declines with each passing day. IT admins don't want data outside their retention policy/access logging/subject to user hardware failure, and anyone who thinks cloud storage is a malicious big tech plot left the Microsoft ecosystem years ago.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by andai on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:34PM (#33780073)

By "thinks", do you mean "knows"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by int_19h on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:36PM (#33780873)

Even so, using OneDrive as a backing store for user documents has been integrated into Windows for a while now, and every app that uses standard file save dialogs etc ends up automatically and transparently doing that, so why should Office be special?

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by BarryMilo on Monday November 28, 2022 @11:29PM (#33783697)

Your statement means nothing when Microsoft is using dark patterns to funnel users onto the cloud. Of course the numbers are going up, that in itself does make it a good thing for users.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by jaclaz on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @03:25AM (#33785006)

I don't think everyone using office in the workd is "under" an IT Admin supervision, many home users and small businesses still use Word and Excel (and local storage), I believe.

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