Re: OT Vista Blues

"Peter McMurray" <excalibur21@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"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.

Hmmm...I don't know about you, but personally I use a PC as a simple tool
and what's important to me is that it does not get in my way and is as
reliable as a toaster. And...the buttons shouldn't have changed since the
last time I got one.

I thought the story (which is all over the web) spoke for itself. What I got
from it was that a *signficant number* of people, including movers and
shakers in the computer world, were at the very least, wary or indifferent
to Vista. This means something (to me), as it confirms my more Luddite
impressions of a product I cursed for a month until I reverted to XP.

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.

ABUSE?!! Call out Program Protection Services! What the heck are you
talking about?

Peter, you obviously use a PC is a very different way and I'm willing to
accept that you actually like Vista. But I suspect the vast majority of
users couldn't care less.

Often that can be our own fault. Expecting people to do it properly as
trained is to say the least ambitious.

I have NO desire to be "trained" to use my PC. That's the point of it, it's
supposed to be user-friendly.

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)

Hmmm. Dawn... what say you?

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.

I regret to say I barely know what a TIFF is. What's wrong with gifs? What
does scanning mean anyway? Like Google Images?

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.

"does not" or do you mean "does?"

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.

Yeah, and I will stop logging in as root on Unix as well. Hahaha.

Chandru

Peter McMurray.




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