Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Darrin Hatakeda's avatar

When I was a PM on Excel talking to KirkG about a feature, he gave me a quote that I'll never forget, "Tools/Options is where spineless program managers put their feature when they can't make a *$#^&% decision." I smile ever time I consider the truth of that statement.

Expand full comment
Brad Weed's avatar

One early step in the journey of task panes was with JulieLar when she was still in DevDiv. If I remember right, she was already designing task panes for developer tools. I remember having having early conversations with her about how they might be used in Outlook in 1996ish?

Another big influencer of more text in the interface (for which task panes and Wizards better accommodated) came from Microsoft Money. Jan Miksovsky evangelized 'task based user interfaces' pretty heavily as I recall.

Expand full comment
4 more comments...

No posts