{"id":126,"date":"2005-08-28T17:56:53","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T22:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2005\/08\/28\/dear-microsoft-f-lock-sucks"},"modified":"2005-08-28T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T22:56:53","slug":"dear-microsoft-f-lock-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Dear Microsoft: F Lock sucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!124\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div>I&#8217;ve complained about this before, but it just bit me again.\u00a0 The implementation of the F Lock key on newer Microsoft keyboards is a user interface design gaff of massive proportions.\u00a0 We have 20 years of people learning how to use function keys, and in one fell swoop, MS decides to change the way everything works.\u00a0 The funny thing is, it&#8217;s not like the addition of the F Lock key and changing the behavior of every function key has reduced the complexity of keyboards.\u00a0 Take a look at some of the higher end MS keyboards, and you&#8217;ll see that they&#8217;re festooned with buttons for just about everything.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>In any case, MS should at least make it possible to configure the keyboard to default to the normal behavior that applications and users expect from the keyboard.\u00a0 I have to install their keyboard driver software anyway, so why isn&#8217;t this an option in there?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Microsoft&#8217;s vaunted user interface skills and lab testing chops really took a hit on this one.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Nothing like moving a hundred pictures into a folder, then pressing F2 to rename one and have them all disappear.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because F2 means Undo on this damn keyboard.\u00a0 Nice.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Bad Microsoft, bad!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve complained about this before, but it just bit me again.\u00a0 The implementation of the F Lock key on newer Microsoft keyboards is a user interface design gaff of massive proportions.\u00a0 We have 20 years of people learning how to use function keys, and in one fell swoop, MS decides to change the way everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}