Microsoft@Editrix at this point, I would not be surprised if things are not properly beta-tested at all anymore, let alone by specific user groups to check for different types of specialised work scenarios. It almost looks as if any fanciful idea is simply dumped into the “Insider” preview ring, and if it does not receive any protest loud enough, it gets forced upon everyone else in the next step. One might wonder what is up with those Insiders that something as destructive as this newest travesty does not get flagged, but I suspect that the insider program is populated mostly by curious tinkerers and not by professionals, for two reasons. Who in their right mind would voluntarily surrender their working systems they rely on (and often depend on for a living) to shenanigans like this that might utterly break productivity at any moment with the next random test? The irony is of course, as we just witness, that this inevitably happens regardless, just a couple of months later. And just to be clear: I do not mean any disrespect to the curious tinkerers whatsoever; my hat off to them, they of all people provide an indispensable service for MS and do so for free. What I am saying is that beta-testing is something that should not come for free (for MS, that is) and be entirely crowd/outsourced to those who are willing to sacrifice their systems, spare time, and nerves. Seriously, does MS expect professionals to setup a second isolated testing rig at home (so they do not contaminate their productive systems), where after work they then can continue to “simulate work” in order to do MS’s beta-testing work for them? For free? For a product that does not only cost substantial money but continues to do so even if it gets broken by the provider since its a stupid subscription?
Anyways, so I don’t just echo grievances and anger: I can only agree with Editrix’s point about the font size of the comments (visually impaired, myself). It’s not just that you cannot adjust the font size of comments except by zooming in and out of the entire now way to scattered and spread-out document sheet, but they jump around like crazy when one enters or leaves the field of view while zooming or moving. It also appears as if the renderer has issues. This might differ between individual systems depending on screen size and screen resolution, but evidently the comments now also occupy a different rendering layer than the rest of the document. And if I am at a zoom level that is outside of what Word judges is ideal, the font of the comments begins to become blurry (the rest of the document stays normally sharp), just like in the poor interpolation Windows occasionally applies to legacy software to compensate for high screen resolution.
