[AccessD] Ramblings of a nutcase

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Mar 1 10:58:27 CST 2014


Hi John:

I can not generally disagree with anything you have said.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "John W Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, 1 March, 2014 4:03:42 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ramblings of a nutcase

Jim,

I think that what we really have is a very bi-polar situation where a huge mass of people, billions 
of people, work all day at something.  They might want to spend all day playing on their tablet but 
can't really, they have to stock store shelves, run cash registers, wait tables, drive buses and so 
forth.

After work, yep they jump on their entertainment of choice, whether that may be TV, streaming TV, 
surfing the internet or walking the dog.

The companies that hire the masses do NOT want their employees spending all day on their tablets (or 
work computers) surfing the internet, or Facebook, they want them doing their jobs.  They do NOT 
want their work computers (where one is needed) looking and feeling like an entertainment console.  
They do NOT want their employees being sucked off into Facebook, twitter, or Newegg advertisements 
because they were researching a new computer build last night at home.  They want their employees 
doing their job.

Microsoft, via Windows and the Office package, has been at the very core of the office environment 
since day one.  Microsoft is the company that it is, 98%, BECAUSE of this focus and environment.  
However Microsoft has watched the smartphone craze, and then the tablet craze, and then the Phablet 
craze and notice that they missed the boat with the current Windows, which of course they did.  So 
they threw the baby out with the bathwater and invented Windows 8 which is VERY MUCH a shell over 
Windows 7, in order to turn Windows into a tablet / phone friendly OS.  That is not a bad thing all 
by itself, Microsoft needed to do this, BUT...

But Windows 8 fanbois opinions to the contrary, it is DECIDEDLY work unfriendly.  As a working OS, 
companies do not want ANYTHING that diverts the attention of the worker away from their Job, and 
Windows 8, BY DESIGN, is about doing just that.  Let me rephrase that, it is not intentionally about 
that, it is just about recreation instead of about work. The very things that are required for a 
good recreation interface get in the way of getting work done.

This is not ME saying this (though I agree, from admittedly limited experience), it is millions upon 
millions upon HUNDREDS of millions of workers and managers and IT folks saying this.

So Microsoft and their Windows 8 fanbois say "well just be patient, spend some time learning it, 
download this app and that app..."

But Business is NOT about working around the limitations of their basic tools IMPOSED on them by the 
creator of those tools in order that the creator of those tools can make money from a segment of the 
market that is the antithesis of what Business does.  Business should not HAVE to spend hours of 
every employee's time, and download tons of crap, simply to get their employees back to work, so 
that MS can finally get a slice of the recreation OS market. It is decidedly NOT Business' 
problem!!!  It is not their problem until MS mangles the BUSINESS Windows interface to make it 
recreation friendly and shoves it down Business throat.

What exactly does MS expect business to do when faced with this? The very fact that Windows 8 is by 
design entertainment focused is reason enough, all by itself, for business to refuse to install it 
on work machines.  What exactly does MS expect Business to do?

I can tell you what I expect business to do.  Refuse to install it.  That is precisely what I would 
do if I was the manager of the business.

A Hooka pipe is designed, from the ground up, for recreational pursuits.  There is not a person 
reading this thread who would seriously propose that Businesses around the world should be required 
to install on in their companies.  Windows 8 interface was designed, from the ground up, for 
recreational purposes. Let's call a spade a spade and stop dancing around the subject. Business does 
not want it, and will NEVER want it, and for very good reasons.

MS needs to continue to market Windows 8 to the recreation market and focus on getting it's business 
OS (Windows 7)  back on track and continuing to be sold to the millions of business PCs that will 
continue to be sold.  The office PC is NOT going away anytime soon.  And I don't see business 
backing down about installing an entertainment console on their work computers.

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 2/28/2014 11:04 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi John:
>
> <rant mode on>
> My belief is that the major companies are the entities that are really trying to kill off the PC.
>
>


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