I am frequently annoyed by the behavior of Microsoft application interfaces. Microsoft Office, which I use most, is a principle offender. It seems that Microsoft has gone out of its way to create a "helpful" interface that is actually anti-helpful; that makes your life worse. At first, it might appear that they just simply never thought about the interface, yet closer inspection reveals that they did—and then they made every decision that would make the user more miserable and, more important, make the user less productive. On consideration, I have come up with the name MAG/NET, an acronym for "Most Annoying Guess/Not Ever Thoughtful" to collectively describe the worst behaviors of this type of interface. I wrote about that in my blog article The Microsoft-MAG/NET Interface. Later, I decided to start recording the worst behaviors into a compendium, which I have started here. Enjoy...my compendium, not the interface. : )
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