Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

On 26 Sep 2008 09:22:19 -0700, pinncons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pinnacle)
wrote:

I just got a new ThinkPad with Microsoft Windows Vista installed. The
culture shock has been enough that I felt compelled to post this. One of
Conley's Corollaries is that "No PC software upgrade is complete until the
user interface has been entirely rewritten." Never was that corollary more
true than with Windows Vista. The interface, while visually stunning, bears
little resemblance to any Windows operating system preceding it. Standard
system utilities are completely different, and located in completely
different places. THEY TOOK THE MENU BAR! THE WHOLE F'ING MENU BAR!
(quick, somebody throw me a fifth of JD). This change alone is staggering.
The menu bar has been there for 20 years, and now poof! It's gone with a
wave of Bill's mighty hand. I can't begin to imagine how many BILLIONS, if
not TRILLIONS of dollars in lost productivity are going to be flushed down
the toilet when corporations around the world roll out this POS. And we'll
all just take it like the lemmings we are.

My only use of Vista is using Remote Desktop to a shared Vista
machine. Sure it's different, but not as hard to learn as Office
2007. (I did uninstall the SEARCH feature in my XP Taskbar, and wish
I could do the same with Outlook 2007's "enhanced" search functions).
But I'm not figuring out what you mean by taking the menu bar. I see
a task bar, and I see my applications' menu bars (which I prefer to
the single menu bar for multiple Macintosh applications).

But I see users moving from 3270 based applications to web based
applications, relearning their processes. I see printed reports
becoming less common. (We've eliminated printed bills which is a
great savings).

Things are changing whether we like it or not. Not all changes make
sense - hopefully this is a time to evaluate which ones do make sense.
And either choose our direction or accept what comes anyway.

We know the future isn't 3270 terminals.

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