"Peter McMurray" <excalibur21@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Chandru Murthi" <cmurth_xyz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Peter McMurray" <excalibur21@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
Obviously you don't get irony.
>>
>>> I actually asked the operator why she said "I like my Vista". Lo and
>>> behold ease of use with do***ent 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.
In that case, I'll make that a new set of power tools. In fuschia.
http://www.ladiestoolsonline.com/
> You definitely need to get out there on the work floor for a change.
>>
>>> My example of spreadsheet 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.
Not planning to go broke, buying a new gizmo every few months.
Also bad analogy. If you have been following the slow food movement,
you'll
find that many "old-fa****oned" farming techniques are beginning to make a
come-back as the realization dawns that hyper-productivity and
mono-cultural
farming causes an eventual decline in soil fertility and generate more
problems than they solve. The horses may have been a good thing.
>>
>>>. 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 :-)
Ever owned a BMW? It's quite reliable, thank you.
Look back on this thread and another one from last month for Vista
problems.
Also check TG's much more moderate response:
"Why should anyone get Vista with extra hardware and then turn off all
of the Vista features just to get it "pretty good". Why can't we just
throw the same or less hardware
[and, by extension, software - Chandru]
at XP and get a system that has all
the software we already own, running "great"?"
Or Joe's "it'll run very well with all the resource sucking visual
attributes turned off."
On the other hand, I've seen nothing you've posted that shows Vista's
superiority (well, colorcolding, gadgets... and better help.) I'm
underwhelmed.
Chandru
> 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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