Re: OT Vista Blues


"Chandru Murthi" <cmurth_xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Peter McMurray" <excalibur21@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Chandru
When was the last time that you got out on the floor and genuinely
examined the business processes?

Thankfully, never ;).Business is a complete mystery to me.

Obviously


I actually asked the operator why she said "I like my Vista". Lo and
behold ease of use with document imaging was number 1 and no you cannot
do it that easily in XP, Linux or any other desktop. Outlook changes
figured very high on the list with colour coding of the contacts a major
benefit. Outlook interfaces easily to things like the Payroll, Creditors,
Debtors etc and separating the contacts in this manner is very valuable.
The gadget bar links are also very valuable with popups and reminders for
jobs to be done today etc.

An easily amused user, eh? I can send her some crayons.
You do have an uncanny ability to jump in too deep. She actually is vastly
more experienced than your good self. She is a qualified accountant with
many years experience running accounting departments, an experienced Pick
programmer who is also perfectly capable of changing a disk drive or power
supply and has significant exposure as both installer and user of most
popular operating systems.
You definitely need to get out there on the work floor for a change.


My example of spread*** abuse was intended to show that we need to look
at how people actually work and that now there are significant changes in
the Office suite particularly well linked to Vista is a good time to
start. There are other major benefits such as the security et al but
perhaps people should read the info rather than launching into criticism.
On that point why did you dump it since you will have to go back to it or
retire

Think I can keep my XP for another 4 years and will seriously think about
retirement then. Or else switch to my son's W2000.

What a pity. Once you were a leader in the development stakes now you are
like the old farmer who never could see a need to change his horse for a
tractor and wondered why he went broke.


. In fact I find it quite intriguing to see people claiming that their
*nix systems never fall over but Windows often does. It never seems to
occur to them that maybe they have made a mistake as a very significant
chunk of world business sees it differently. :-)

As for the BMW, well that got slammed by Top Gear last year for a
ridiculous interface that required one to read the manual in depth just
to shut up the stupid GSP gadget and other "improvements". My examples
are from a superior and cheaper car, the MAZDA 6, perhaps that is why
Mazda sell far more cars world wide! By the way a BMW happily led my
brother through a maze of Belgian streets and when in the middle of a
square with 6 lanes of traffic announced "you are here" Whoopee-doo. Bad
design and worse implementation.

BMW is far and away the best "drivers" car according to most reviews.
Don't confuse the bastrardization of control which is the I-Drive
(optional on the little BMW's) with drivability.

However, you're actually proving my point. I-Drive does nothing
substantial functionally, probably took a 100 man-years of design time, is
a complete bear to understand, and gives new meaning to the words
"user-hostile." Remind you of Vista?

Definitely not. The help in Vista and associated Office suites is the best
that any manufacturer has ever produced. You still have not told us what
upset you so much that you changed back. Perhaps you were too busy fixing
the notoriously dodgy BMW :-)
Peter McMurray

Chandru
As for smelling the roses. Mate I think that I have you well beaten
there as I watch the wedge tailed eagles soaring on the ridge above my
house, the swoop of a white goshawk or a kookaburra past my office window
and then at night the wondrous sound of thousands of frogs chortling
around the paddocks. A few years back you would have been right as I was
working far too hard

Good Luck with your systems
Peter McMurray







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