Is the problem Micro$oft or its customers?

[Ray Miller]

--- use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

 From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>
> 
> So I have three ways to handle these reports:
> 
> a) Tell them it's conformant with Micro$oft's
> published spec and so they 
> need to get used to it, possibly providing an email
> address for 
> Micro$oft's design team so they can complain
> directly to the source.
> 
> b) Ignore Micro$oft's XP Visual Design Guidelines
> and use their darker 
> background color (the tan behind the tab) for the
> tab control itself.
> 
> c) Use the Gaslight method:  Tell 'em it's actually
> the same but their 
> vision has changed. ;)
> 
> 
> I've been doing a), but as more reports come in I'm
> considering the 
> possibility that the
> enormously-well-funded-yet-still-tasteless UI team 
> at Micro$oft may have gotten it wrong; maybe that
> color is indeed too light.
> 
> So do I conform to Micro$oft and face the wrath of
> customers, or conform 
> to the customers and face the wrath of reviewers?
> 
> -- 
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Media Corporation
>   Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any
> Web site
>  
>
Richard,
I've always hated the WS doom and gloom colors. If
they've lightened up recently, and that's the new GUI
from MS, then go with it. (Or start a new one: get
crap from everyone!) 

Ray Miller