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Is it just me? IE 7 / Media Player: the MIA Main Menu question

I use Firefox and WinAmp primarily (as opposed to Internet Explorer and Media Player).  Just now was logged in to a machine that had IE 7 on it, and needed to save a copy the HTML file I was looking at.  It wasn't obvious to me how to do that without the Main Menu turned on (which it's not by default), so had to turn it one to do the File -> Save.

The newer Media Players (and probably other things Microsoft) have this setup too -- no Main Menu by default.  It seems a step backwards, usability-wise to me.  Is it just me, or do you agree?  I'm genuinely curious.  Let me know in the comments...  thx...


June 30, 2008 |

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Joe Stanton

Pressing ALT and releasing it will reveal the Main Menu toolbar, doing it again hides it. Not intuitive but not as bad as Office 2007 and what it did to the user interface.

Posted by: Joe Stanton | July 22, 2008 at 07:50 PM

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