Re: Morgan Stanley: 40% of college students plan to buy Macs
- From: -hh <recscuba_google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
Steve de Mena <st...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ZnU wrote:
There still seems to be this odd notion in the advocacy world that if
your office uses Windows machines, you should as well. This may have
made sense 15 years ago, when people mainly had computers at home to do
the same sorts of things they did at work (often explicitly to take work
home with them), and when cross-platform compatibility wasn't all that
strong.
And when people were more predisposed to steal their software from
work, instead of from P2P sites.
It appears to have little relationship to reality in a world
where cross-platform compatibility is quite high for most office type
tasks, and where people now frequently use their personal computers for
very different types of tasks than their work computers.
Well, when your company only supports VPN access via a specific
Windows version of the VPN client then that cross-compatability goes
out the window.
My company supports VPN (Cicso), but they also require that the VPN
software only be installed on hardware it owns. As such, one's
personal home computer is off-limits, so it is irrelevant what OS that
home computer happens to run.
And with Microsoft's new version of Office dropping
VBA, forgot any cross-compatability there (besides the fact Entourage
doesn't support the same addins as Outlook and acts nothing like it).
The demand/need for VBA is a function of what type of work one is
doing. There's probably 20 people in my office who don't even know
what VBA is for every 1 who actually knows how to use it, and there's
another 20 who know how to use it for every 1 who actually does...for
at work. YMMV.
VISIO?
Not sure how often the "little bit of extra work that's to be done at
home" involves something this involved, particularly as its bandwidth
to the Server and across the VPN to your kitchen table is probably a
nightmare that makes this sort of remote task impactical.
I could go on and on.
Gosh, please do. Of course, assuming that one is allowed to run non-
corporate hardware, there's always the option of Boot Camp, Parallels,
etc, with which to run Windows for 'occasional work stuff' that can't
be done native in OS X, such as PDFs and the common Office documents,
basic email communications, etc.
-hh
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