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All I can figure is that research/observation showed that: - Normal users often prefer to paste with formatting. - Normal users will never figure out how to d
by handrous 5y ago
All I can figure is that research/observation showed that:
- Normal users often prefer to paste with formatting.
- Normal users will never figure out how to do that if it's not the default.
- Normal users will usually reluctantly accept paste-with-formatting even if it's not what they wanted—that is, it's only rarely entirely unacceptable for them.
- Power users will figure out how to paste without formatting.
- unknown_error 5y agoYou think Microsoft, of Ribbon and Clippy and full-screen start menu ads, and 20 different control panels for the same settings, does UX testing...? The same Microsoft that can't decide whether normal users prefer Windows, Windows Phone, Zune, or Xbox interfaces, so they just go ahead and add a little of each to all of them? More likely they were just worried Slack was attacking their enterprise segment and killing Skype so they rushed a shitty product to market ASAP. "Embrace, extend, extinguish" has turned into "panic, copycat, repeat".