[AccessD] Whilst on Windows 8

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jun 12 11:13:18 CDT 2012


As a friend says, "No you have stayed the same age but the world has just
slide underneath you." ;-)

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy
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Think that is a big part of it.



Or is it because I'm old?

Rocky


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [AccessD] Whilst on Windows 8
From: Darryl Collins <darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au>
Date: Mon, June 11, 2012 5:19 pm
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving
(accessd at databaseadvisors.com)" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>

Hi folks,

I found these on the weekend and had a read. It is rather long, but I found
it was well worth a read - however you will need more than a spare
5 minutes though.

<http://www.mobileopportunity.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/fear-and-loathing-and-
windows-8.html>

The following quote (taken from the link above) really raises my concerns
and fears about this whole iPad tablet craze..

"People, not files, are the center of activity. There has been a marked
change in the kinds of activities people spend time doing on the PC. In
balance to "traditional" PC activities such as writing and creating, people
are increasingly reading and socializing, keeping up with people and their
pictures and their thoughts, and communicating with them in short, frequent
bursts. Life online is moving faster and faster, and people are
progressively using their PCs to keep up with and participate in that. And
much of this activity and excitement is happening inside the web browser, in
experiences built using HTML and other web technologies."

Let me <<the author, not Darryl>> translate that for you: "We're optimizing
Windows for using Facebook and YouTube at the expense of performing
productivity tasks."

Yeah, that maybe great for web surfing and Joe and Joette Bogan on the daily
train commute, but if you actually want to do the sort of productive work
that we (and most of the corporate world does) then I think MS are out of
their heads. They seem to be so desperate and focussed on getting a foothold
in Mobile (and tablet) that they are risking killing the golden goose
(namely the whole corporate productivity 'Office' market).

File management, or the lack of it, also freaks me out. Actually after
reading the way the iPad handles file management (which to me seems highly
inefficient) it has really put me off the idea of one for anything but media
consumption. W8 doesn't seem to be much better, but I guess it is early days
still.

<http://windowssecrets.com/newsletter/how-to-transfer-files-from-windows-to-
the-ipad/?u=darklydrawl at yahoo.com.au&r=16913-15810>

Anyway... I found both of these interesting.

You may find some value too.

Cheers
Darryl

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