Symphonious

A while back I complained that the FireFox 2.0 installer didn't include an actual link to the Applications folder. This morning I saw that this wasn't just a theoretical problem, nor was it just a problem for "stupid users". One of our engineers, who is very bright and good with computers but with no real Mac OS experience, had to install FireFox 2.0 on one of our testing Macs. He dragged the FireFox icon onto the picture of the Applications folder. The lack of text made the problem even worse - he wasn't familiar with the Applications folder icon on OS X so didn't realize it was meant to be representative of the destination instead of being the destination in and of itself.

It's hard to find good installers these days.

I installed the final version of Office 2007 this morning and when the installer finished I was actually quite impressed - it was the first Windows install I've done in ages that hasn't taken the liberty to install a shortcut in my quick launch bar. Sadly, Outlook is one of the very few programs that I actually want in my quick launch bar so I went and added it myself. I thought, I'll have to blog that - "Thumbs Up For Office 2007 Install".

Then I tried out my shiny new Outlook quick launch button, Outlook came up and promptly installed a second shortcut in my quick launch bar. Sigh. Hence the new title is now "Thumbs Down For Office 2007 Install". If you think I want a link in my quick launch then put it there before I've already put it there myself.

The one good thing I can say is that it didn't add a shortcut to my desktop which is better than most Windows installers.