Wrong Way, Genius: ArcGIS Explorer 600
I guess it’s no coincidence that just as ArcDex was ruminating on the gross and saddening similarities between Microsoft and ESRI the AGX Team gleefully released a preliminary look at a future ArcGIS Explorer interface that looked, well…like a Microsoft Office product. Which is really fortunate, because if anything is going to move AGX out of the realm of a pathetic joke of an afterthought of a farcical not-a-competitor-to-Google-Earth competitor to Google Earth, it’s a rotund, ornately-menued, visually complicated Office clone. Jesus Christ. Bravo, ESRI.