Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Tue Jun 12 04:12:17 CDT 2012
Hi Stuart and Darryl et al You miss that such a simple thing as a file - not to say the handling of it - still is very abstract to many, even some office workers. Yes, you can learn them "do this and that when you wish this" but the picture of drives, folders, and files - not to say the network - is missing. Anything that can improve this situation is preferable. One little thing, I've noticed, is that Windows Vista+ lists shared folders as, for example, or primary document folder: document (\\cactus.dom\cactus data\data)(T:) "Our document folder" is easier to understand than "drive T:". /gustav >>> stuart at lexacorp.com.pg 12-06-12 3:08 >>> Yep, it seems farily clear to me that MS are pursuing the "social media" market and hoping that their captive business market will put up with the inconvenience. I doubt that it will end well for them On 12 Jun 2012 at 0:19, Darryl Collins wrote: > > "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). > -- Stuart McLachlan Ph: +675 340 4392 Mob: +675 7100 2028 Web: http://www.lexacorp.com.pg