Too much innovation

This is my beef with the current trend, they fix everything. Microsoft is the main offender.

Using Outlook as my mail server,

I used to be able to simply right click and select “print” and it would print everything on screen.

Now, I have to click where the cursor is pointing in the attached screenshot only to be shown a small menu. When I click “print” on the pop-up, can I print what’s on the screen.

Thanks Google for helping me find this, but not before being inconvenienced by the change.

Let’s not forget that you are offered a “send” button to click on when you wish to send a message but at other times you are offered a picture of a paper plane instead. Even something as simple as that creates an unnecessary air of confusion. I have been quite happy clicking on “send” for the last 20 years. Maybe they are softening us up for a permanent change to the paper plane or perhaps they are simply “feeling the water?” This time I see the paper plane at the foot of my page.

The same applies to Skype. They are forever changing it. Simple actions like saving a number or editing a number became impossible until you learn the new way. For a while, I could not even find my list of phone numbers or a keypad. The new way is duly replaced by a newer way after a very short time. Sometimes they realise they have made a serious blunder and change it back.

Skype was, simple and efficient once. I am quite sure it is no better now, just different.

They have further “improved” Skype by removing the facility of sending video messages. They promise to re-instate it one day. How odd. You can still send a voice message.

Is there a solution? Or is it just going to get worse? Is this simply a symptom of being 77 years old? I wonder if Dr Mahatir does his own emailing? God help him if he does.

GEORGE