Great Cæsar's ghost!

Microsoft has gone and done it again.

I fire up Word, try to save-as a file, and spend ten minutes trying to figure out how what appears to be a new system for doing so works.

Whereupon I managed to save-as a file in completely the wrong place. Nothing permanently damaging, but a solid gold time-waster.

There must be something someone puts in the water of the Word development group's water cooler that has the side effect of turning developers into insensitive dolts.

Then again, what can one expect of a product that hasn't figured out, over the course of a quarter century, how to upgrade itself without nuking all of the user's settings.

(And then it occurs to me... maybe it's not insensitivity. Maybe it's just an attempt to get everyone to do things their way—something I refer to as "the tyranny of the One True Way"—relying on the growing reluctance to customize Word to one's liking, knowing that the next update will simply reset it all to Microsoft's chosen defaults.)

Just a thought...