Is it just me - or are - windows 7 - media center - windows live mail - etc. all somewhat disjointed?

Some three months into Windows 7 X64 and just about reconciled to absence of
NewsGroups via Outlook Express - when up jumps Windows Live Mail - evidently
with

capability to reach out and subscribe to NTTP Newsgroups. I surmise -
there must also be a host of features (or at least - some) which also I have
managed to overlook - which are part of the Media Center Software. Won't
even mention the new look of Office 2007 (2010 you say?) where it takes a
dullard like me - a few weeks to find the
help tab....

But - getting there is said to be more important than the final
destination... so I'm off to find the wizard. There's a rumor that one can
even print out a Spread Sheet - if you can find where Excel is hiding.

Regards to all
Barry

Newsgroups have always been available in Windows Live and the setup for them
is more or less the same as it was in Outlook Express (Tools, Accounts, Add,
Newsgroups). In fact other than a slightly "glossed-up" interface, Live Mail
and Outlook Express don't seem much different.

Office 2007 is not new to Windows 7, it has been around, well... since 2007.
And yes, the interface has changed from 2003, but Office 95 was a radical
departure from from the Windows/DOS versions before it as well. Most people
seems to like the ribbon interface a lot once they get used to it (or if it
the only thing they know). Personally, I find it much less disjointed than
the mess of toolbars and buttons on the old interface.

As far as Media Center, those features have been around since XP days - the
first version of Media Center was released in 2002. If you have no need for
those features, then don't bother with them.

I'm not really sure what you are trying to say, that you don't want any
added features in your software? Then why bother upgrading?

You don't want the new version to be any different than the old? Then why
bother creating a new version?
--
James
Bart: "According to creationism, there were no cavemen."
Homer: "Good riddance! Their drawings sucked and they looked like hippies."

BTW, Excel is found in the same place it has been for many years, Start
button, All Programs, Microsoft Office.



"Barry" <> wrote in message
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> Some three months into Windows 7 X64 and just about reconciled to absence
> of NewsGroups via Outlook Express - when up jumps Windows Live Mail -
> evidently with
>
> capability to reach out and subscribe to NTTP Newsgroups. I surmise -
> there must also be a host of features (or at least - some) which also I
> have managed to overlook - which are part of the Media Center Software.
> Won't even mention the new look of Office 2007 (2010 you say?) where it
> takes a dullard like me - a few weeks to find the
> help tab....
>
> But - getting there is said to be more important than the final
> destination... so I'm off to find the wizard. There's a rumor that one
> can even print out a Spread Sheet - if you can find where Excel is hiding.
>
> Regards to all
> Barry