User Interface, or UI, is a fancy-pants term that describes how humans interact with something. A Web page is a UI, when you open a word-processing program, you see a UI, the buttons on your alarm clock are a UI.
Microsoft Hotmail recently changed the UI on e-mail messages that users compose, such that a quick add pane now takes up a significant portion of the place where one ordinarily composes messages.
One workaround is to change your country of origin. Change the country you're from, and the quick add pane no longer appears when one composes a message. Having mostly Norwegian ancestry, I changed my locale from the U.S. to Norway.
Here's the fun part. All the advertisements on Instant Message (IM) now appear in Norwegian.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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