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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: 2 % of Office 2003 users customize their application
From:       Iñaki <ibc2 () euskalnet ! net>
Date:       2006-07-10 1:41:02
Message-ID: 200607100341.02878.ibc2 () euskalnet ! net
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El Lunes, 10 de Julio de 2006 02:29, Charles de Miramon escribió:
> Hi,
>
> According to this blog, Microsoft has a phone-home mechanism in Office
> 2003 giving usability informations. An they found that only 2 % of the
> people have changed the settings of Office 2003
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/06/27/648269.aspx


It doesn't surprise me.

Yesterday I was speaking with 8 friends (25-29 years old) about how they work 
with MS Office or OpenOffice. All of them told me that they never use styles 
when doing a document, neither in the university final project. They only 
use "predetermined text" and put it in bold and bigger to write titles and 
subtitles each time. So if they need to change the style of the titles they 
need to change manually all the document titles (and the same in 50 pages 
documents).

Ok, it's not a study, it's just a mini study with 8 friends, all of them with 
the university finished, and all of them don't use styles in MS Office or 
OpenOffice. Terrible.

The default setting of any app should be very friendly and most users should 
like it, or they will use other app. In fact, I think that a common advantage 
of the comercial programs is that the developers work hard to do friendly and 
easy interfaces and good default settings. It is enough for common users.

Regards.

-- 
Iñaki
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