look it's 9pm on a saturday:
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look it's 9pm on a saturday:
of COURSE I'm installing Office 95 intro a Windows 98 VM, why wouldn't I be?
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look it's 9pm on a saturday:
of COURSE I'm installing Office 95 intro a Windows 98 VM, why wouldn't I be?
I don't have spreadsheet problems, I have...
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I don't have spreadsheet problems, I have...
God, Powerpoint 95 is a look. How many buttons can you fit on a 640x480 screen? At least this many!
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God, Powerpoint 95 is a look. How many buttons can you fit on a 640x480 screen? At least this many!
five toolbars. count 'em. I did. and got it wrong the first time, because I missed that there's one embedded in the status bar
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five toolbars. count 'em. I did. and got it wrong the first time, because I missed that there's one embedded in the status bar
OH MY GOD I CAN TURN ON MORE TOOLBARS
I'M GOING INTO HYPERSPACE
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OH MY GOD I CAN TURN ON MORE TOOLBARS
I'M GOING INTO HYPERSPACE
the fact I can turn on a toolbar that just lets me jump to other Office Software is the most "Someone got a promotion for that" feature I've seen in a while
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the fact I can turn on a toolbar that just lets me jump to other Office Software is the most "Someone got a promotion for that" feature I've seen in a while
good point, why DON'T I have FoxPro installed? I am often asking myself this!
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good point, why DON'T I have FoxPro installed? I am often asking myself this!
I'm on it
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I'm on it
There it is. God, that splash screen is a Time, isn't it?
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There it is. God, that splash screen is a Time, isn't it?
if you ask it to help you create a table, one of the suggested databases is one to track your film, you know for photographers? like what date you had that roll developed...
That's some 1996-ass functionality right there.
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if you ask it to help you create a table, one of the suggested databases is one to track your film, you know for photographers? like what date you had that roll developed...
That's some 1996-ass functionality right there.
for some reason Fox Pro comes with Imagedit, a pixel image editor that can edit BMP, CUR, and ICO.
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for some reason Fox Pro comes with Imagedit, a pixel image editor that can edit BMP, CUR, and ICO.
The FoxPro logo is definitely Arial, but it's tweaked a little bolder than Arial Heavy, and the kerning has been manually tweaked, it looks like.
Microsoft liked to do this around 1995. They'd design something with their standard fonts, but then have some graphical designers tweak how it looked. Like the "It's now safe to shutdown your computer" screen: they tweaked several letters in that.
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The FoxPro logo is definitely Arial, but it's tweaked a little bolder than Arial Heavy, and the kerning has been manually tweaked, it looks like.
Microsoft liked to do this around 1995. They'd design something with their standard fonts, but then have some graphical designers tweak how it looked. Like the "It's now safe to shutdown your computer" screen: they tweaked several letters in that.
I overlaid some Ariel on it and tried to match it. Aside from the boldness issue, you can see the kerning is different on "Fo" and they redrew the V
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I overlaid some Ariel on it and tried to match it. Aside from the boldness issue, you can see the kerning is different on "Fo" and they redrew the V
this is a little annoying if you're invested in mimicing Microsoft typography from 1995.
That may seem an obscure thing to be concerned with but it seems to come up for me all the time.
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this is a little annoying if you're invested in mimicing Microsoft typography from 1995.
That may seem an obscure thing to be concerned with but it seems to come up for me all the time.
you know how much I'm working? I'm using Microsoft Visual ProPro Professional Edition
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you know how much I'm working? I'm using Microsoft Visual ProPro Professional Edition
!I'm installing so many microsoft products I'm a...
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I'm installing so many microsoft products I'm a...
put all your stuff in a Visual ProBox
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put all your stuff in a Visual ProBox
I wrote some code to generate a random name out of some of the wordchunks I had edited already and it resulted in this
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