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Feb 17

Are you kidding me? Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac, and Disney

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We all know that Ben can be a little anal when it comes to pixels. He has a nice post making fun of how bad Word 2008 for Mac is.

This really is painful:

Ironically, if you look through Mary Jo Foley’s slideshow on the Microsoft reorg you will find that Roz Ho has actually been promoted recently. Roz was that person who you saw at the Stevenote’s when you thought “oh no”. She would come on stage, with all the energy that Steve had been creating, and brought it down by saying “I know we said we would be done, but Word will be out soon I promise! Microsoft really does care.” Ugh.

I have another “duh” from the week. One very cool feature of the Buzz Lightyear ride at Disneyland is that when you come out you can use a touchscreen to find a photo of yourself, and email that photo. To proove my score to my young cousins I wanted to show them the facts. I opened up my iPhone and got this email:

Galactic Greetings Space Ranger,

You have received an intergalactic transmission from a friend who has just completed a mission on the new Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster interactive experience at Disneyland(r) park in California.

Visit http://disneyland.com/buzzphotos and enter the following code number into the code box to view a photo of Star Command’s newest hero:

*********************************************
CODE NUMBER: 79E987F41E92EB07C1AF20AC858234566
*********************************************

To Infinity and Beyond!

http://www.disneyland.com/Buzz

What is wrong with this picture? Instead of either:

  • Just sending the photo as an attachment
  • Or, giving me a link that I can click on to get it

I instead see that use code, that isn’t hyperlinked. Since the iPhone doesn’t have copy and paste I would have to resort to testing my memory or finding a pen to note the bugger down. Why make the user go through this?

This brings me to my last rant of the day:

I hate the Disney vault

My two year old is interested in the Lion King. I then want to purchase the movie, but nooooo the film is in the Disney vault. Are you kidding me? Do you really make more money by making these movies seem “rare” when they come back out to DVD? Please don’t be dicks and let people download the 1’s and 0’s. This makes me want to suck the bugger down with bittorrent. I hate false supply and demand markets. Disney, with the vault you are like the diamond and gold runners!

2 Responses to “Are you kidding me? Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac, and Disney”

  1. Jason Says:

    Sounds like equally at fault is Apple for not providing cut and paste on your iPhone.

  2. Cyndy Says:

    Dang it. I come to leave a comment and the worse half is already here.

    Check eBay or BitTorrent. Disney are a bunch of corporate nincompoops who seem to beg for pirating. Change the date on your post to four years ago and the movie title to “Toy Story” and I think I actually wrote it. I’m all about people getting compensated for their work, but creating this ridiculous secondary market doesn’t make anyone money but the pirates. It’s the one instance in which I fully support BitTorrent distribution of videos. You can’t explain to a 2-year-old the concept of the Disney vault. And when you WANT to buy the video but CAN’T for some ridiculous idea that might have made sense when videotapes were the be-all and end-all of video use is just beyond what I consider to be proper use of the word stupid.

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