Microsoft Acquired Zenimax (Skyrim, TES, Starfield) $7.5Bn

[Terbinator]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/09/...deo_buy_9.21.1

3x the amount they paid for Mojang. Will also be publishing two PS5 console exclusive games (lol).

[kompukare]

So You-Beta-Test-Our-Siftware has just bought BugSoft.
Both Microsoft and Bethesda are currently well know for shipping things long before they are ready, so does this mean the next TES game is not only going to come half finished (as per TES tradition) it will also have the whole user interface radically changed in a game of musical chairs in each update (as per Microsoft tradition since Ribbon Office)?

[spacein_vader]

So You-Beta-Test-Our-Siftware has just bought BugSoft.
Both Microsoft and Bethesda are currently well know for shipping things long before they are ready, so does this mean the next TES game is not only going to come half finished (as per TES tradition) it will also have the whole user interface radically changed in a game of musical chairs in each update (as per Microsoft tradition since Ribbon Office)?

The ribbon used in every version of Office for the past 13 years? Hardly a regular change. Much like the Start menu they've been using since late 1994.

[kompukare]

The ribbon used in every version of Office for the past 13 years? Hardly a regular change. Much like the Start menu they've been using since late 1994.

13 years already? Ouch.
Point being that for anyone who had actually bothered to learn how to use the previous version of Office, the RibbonUI penalised them enormously. Now, a lot of old keyboard shortcuts still work, but new users will never learn them easily. Alt-O, C, W for change column width in Excel only makes sense for someone who used old versions where the Format was Alt-O, then C for Column and W for Width. The new version is Alt-H, C, W so that one isn't too bad but you're less likely to notice as Alt-O would have been used by way more people while the Ribbon UI is far more 'reach for the mouse' which I and plenty of others hate.

Okay, but far more beta and musical chairs update all the time is the Control Panels where some stuff has been moved to Metro but a lot hasn't. The first time I logged into a Windows Server which had the Metro UI I was surprised that enterprise admins hadn't made a bit fuss about that. Having to google to find where they've hidden important things is crazy especially on a server OS.

Ribbon UI for Windows Explorer also seems far slower. For instance switching views was at one point Crtl-Shift-1 to 8, but then changed it to Ctrl-Alt-1 to 8. The switch to Ribbon UI also coincided with focus frequently getting lost in Explorer.

But yes, some of these issues are quite old. My favourite pet hate is when they started hiding the extensions by default (was it in XP?). Great way to get less technical people to download viruses: if Somefile.MP3.EXE is shown as Somefile.MP3 plenty of people will consider it harmless!

[Krupi]

I really didn't see this coming!

I wonder how sony will react.

Have to say I really hate exclusives however at least with Microsoft they will come to steam.

[AGTDenton]

Okay, but far more beta and musical chairs update all the time is the Control Panels where some stuff has been moved to Metro but a lot hasn't. The first time I logged into a Windows Server which had the Metro UI I was surprised that enterprise admins hadn't made a bit fuss about that. Having to google to find where they've hidden important things is crazy especially on a server OS.

Ribbon UI for Windows Explorer also seems far slower. For instance switching views was at one point Crtl-Shift-1 to 8, but then changed it to Ctrl-Alt-1 to 8. The switch to Ribbon UI also coincided with focus frequently getting lost in Explorer.

But yes, some of these issues are quite old. My favourite pet hate is when they started hiding the extensions by default (was it in XP?). Great way to get less technical people to download viruses: if Somefile.MP3.EXE is shown as Somefile.MP3 plenty of people will consider it harmless!

I call it Windows Chaos