Comments on: Lunchtime Quiz: Icon IQ

By: Pooks

Pooks — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:56:17 +0000

The reason many people missed FrontPage 2007 is that it doesn’t exist. MS discontinued it prior to the 2007 release. Type “what happened to FrontPage” in your search engine.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:49:03 +0000

Now, identify the name of the equivalent open source product that takes half the disk space and loads in one quarter the time :)

By: Reithe

Reithe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:56:53 +0000

The tools work pretty well, but the icons are not recognizable, and I’ve been using the Office Suite for over a decade now.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:53:56 +0000

I got 4 out of 12, but I guess two. Taht is pretty pathetic. Mind you, I’m a linux user and haven’t been using Windoze at all for the past 9 years.

By: Kinglink

Kinglink — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:02:16 +0000

You can hate on Microsoft all you want but they have developed strong set of tools for what ever you need to do which no one still has come close to matching (even OpenOffice).

Only got two wrong, Groove and Front page.

By: kate

kate — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:27:42 +0000

10/12. Got FrontPage and Groove mixed up. It helps that I actually use some of the more obscure ones (like Visio), but a lot were guesses. The icons are pretty, but completely meaningless.

By: Kolja

Kolja — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:35:04 +0000

58%

but then, I only use a Word, Publisher, Outlook, and Excel, and only at work….otherwise I use a Mac. So really, not that bad :-)

By: Nerak

Nerak — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:07:52 +0000

50% Knew 5 and I got lucky with one other guess.
They’ve changed Publisher enormously. My version looks basically like Word but with a P instead of a W.

Those icons really are atrocious. It’s like they just randomly assigned a bunch of generic symbols.

recaptcha: produce cherryola??

By: michael

michael — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:16:32 +0000

75%
Bummer, the Info Path, Groove, Front Page trio through me off. Argh!

By: donner

donner — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:18:12 +0000

I only knew 3 of them for sure, and got bored guessing the rest…I obviously am a Windows moron, but that’s ok…