While I like all the 2012 overall.....really ? All capital letters in the Main menu, flat buttons with no depth....what is this ? pre windows 3.0 world ?
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elmer
I'm on my very last life.
It's Modern
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Proton2
Gary G Mount
You should've seen the pre-release version.
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VS has an interface? Mine currently consists of a giant wall of code and little else.
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DeathByVisualStudio
If we all believed in unicorns and fairies the world would be a better place.
Less is more...more or less anyway.
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CaRDiaK
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
I love 2012. Every part of it oooses awesome for me. It's a shame when I get in work and have to switch back to 2010, but that won't be for long! Can't wait.
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@CaRDiaK: Agree that the features, productivity, etcetra are awesome. It's just the UI that are annoying to me.... especially the all CAPS menu bar. That's frikkin' lame.
Is the entire industry that has 3D gradient buttons everywhere doing it wrong ? If 2-D flat cartoons is really that cool, Pixar would have never been born.
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@Srikanth_t: Ouch, right in the childhood. I grew up on 2D cartoons of much higher quality than most of the drivel produced nowadays.
Get off my lawn!
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LOL
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As with every iteration of a Microsoft product, what was "new and sleek" two years ago is "dated and cheesy now" (these phrases are always used when a UI change happens). This is the new and sleek this year (mark my words, it will be dated and cheesy in 1 to 2 releases).
There is an extension you can get that will lower case the menus. Just thank your respective deity that they left the menus and didn't migrate to the Ribbon. The typical mantra is, when you don't add anything compelling, just move stuff around and then market it as new and streamlined (I mostly mean that, though VS2012 did add quiet a bit of support for new technologies so I personally give it a pass). Office on the other hand, I don't think they've added anything in the last decade that I actually use or need. I could be using Office 2000 personally. Office upgrades have added nothing for me really other than having to find the new locations of buttons and menus that I previously knew the locations of (the one single exception for me personally is SharePoint integration).
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1 hour ago, Srikanth_t wrote
Is the entire industry that has 3D gradient buttons everywhere doing it wrong ? If 2-D flat cartoons is really that cool, Pixar would have never been born.
I don't need my code editor and symbol pushing interface to be Pixar-inspired.
(As much as I love graphics.)
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Richard.Hein
Stay on Target
You'll adapt. Then VS2010 looks annoying after a while. Typical experience, really. Also, they stuck a blue theme back in the latest update, so you can get blue back ... but I tried it and honestly don't like it ... rather have the dark theme or the grey theme personally.
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DCMonkey
What?!?
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elmer
I'm on my very last life.
Not if you are using an Exchange server released in the last decade.
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DeathByVisualStudio
If we all believed in unicorns and fairies the world would be a better place.
1 hour ago, Richard.Hein wrote
You'll adapt. Then VS2010 looks annoying after a while. Typical experience, really. Also, they stuck a blue theme back in the latest update, so you can get blue back ... but I tried it and honestly don't like it ... rather have the dark theme or the grey theme personally.
As much as I hate on VS 2012 I do appreciate they went the extra mile to bring back the blue theme. There some hope in that.
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50 minutes ago, elmer wrote
*snip*
Not if you are using an Exchange server released in the last decade.
The exchange server I use has it's web site enabled that works pretty well (granted, it's not as friendly as the full blown client.. but, works for me since I really only use it for email, my calendar and shared calendars). You did make me think of one caveat... at work I'm required to use Lync (Lync messaging is built into the Exchange web-site but I can't make phone calls anymore without it).
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PopeDai
I moustache you a question, but I'm shaving it for later.
Exchange 2003 supports Outlook 2000, as does Exchange 2007 if you configure it right (source: personal experience).
The compatibility matrix on TechNet is a bit inaccurate.:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728623(v=exchg.141).aspx
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elmer
I'm on my very last life.
@PopeDai:Yes, I was actually being flippant, and simply making a general point that as Exchange and Outlook versions get further apart, the ability to support them becomes more difficult, as newer tech is implemented and older tech is phased out.
Generalizing (and dependent on your requirements) this works both ways... newer Exchange gradually drops support for older Outlook, and newer Outlook gradually drops support for older Exchange (e.g. Office 2010 won't support Exchange 5.5)
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