Re: OT Vista Blues


"Chandru Murthi" <cmurth_xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"This isn't a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information
technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,"

That is the important part. There are some excellent reasons for upgrading
to Vista but they do mean that people have to actually examine the
procedures that they are currently using. Wow! they might even have to come
down out of their ivory towers/cubbies and actually look at what people are
doing and why. That plus the fact that when you buy a computer it comes
with Vista which in my opinion is the only viable desktop in the general
market.

I can tell you now that I have never walked into an organisation that did
not have people working around the system. The horrifying sight of
spread*** abuse as non-programmers dream up their own little wonders is
one classic area. Often that can be our own fault. Expecting people to do
it properly as trained is to say the least ambitious. In my own case I can
think of examples where I need to stand back and see what I can do better.
For example our pricing algorithm starts with a "Free on Board" price and
works up through margins, discounts etc to a final charge - all clearly
demonstrated on screen in a tree structure. However some people cannot
reason this way (there are times when I wonder how they find their way to
work, then I remember that the best operator I ever had suffered agrophobia
and we had to rescue her from the corner outside the office as she was lost)
so the answer is to give them a screen that lets them put in the prices that
they want to charge and work it backwards for them.

A different but essential point is paperwork - I have mentioned already the
terrific integration of TIFF scanning that can save a fortune in time,
effort and storage.

Then of course there is the security which is massively improved, but of
course that does not show except in the "annoying" requests for
confirmation. Do not turn them off except in a properly designated
Administrator account and definitely disable guest whilst setting all other
users with standard privileges only. Yes that means do NOT do development
work in an administrator account and then wonder why it doesn't work
properly for a standard user.
Peter McMurray.


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