[AccessD] Ramblings of a nutcase

Hi Arthur:

I see Windows 8.x as a great user computer...but in a full office environment it becomes hard to use. 

My thought is, "Why should the system have to be adapted to?", with all sorts of third-party apps just so it becomes business friendly. People, in an office, need a number of applications open just to do their work...for around home and just play, Windows 8.x is great. But then the question has to be asked then why not just get an iPad for home use?

Back in the day, when Windows 95 was first introduced, the company I was working for, put on a number of training sessions and these training sessions were very well attended. We also went from office to office giving training in certain programs. Introducing Windows was not a minor task...but after a while  people just got-it. Microsoft, in those days, gave a number of open conferences for the tech and user community. Again, they were well attended. It is amazing how quickly everyone forgets just how hard it was introducing the new windows and the new Office. The UI did not appear obvious to all but everyone really wanted to learn.

Today it is a similar problem but this time the average user, or anyone for that matter, is on their own and must figure out things by themselves. What results is that a few figure some way to do something, other figure out another way and some just quit as there are many simple alternatives, that just work.

Jim          

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014 12:05:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ramblings of a nutcase

IMHO, you folks are all pussies and refuse to see what's great about
Windows 8. With the proviso that you download and install ClassicShell
(google it). This free tool goes a long way toward making Windows 8
palatable for old-timers. In fact it goes further than that; it's smarter
and better than the old classic start menu.

Even without this wonderful tool, there are a few key things you can do to
smarten up your startup tile UI: most notably, you can drag the tiles into
an arrangement of your choice, and also create groups of tiles containing
associated programs (i.e. a Media group, a SQL group, etc. And most
significantly, you can drag your most frequently-visited programs to the
top left of the tile groups. In my tile setup, the first tile is Desktop. I
have two monitors and the desktop opens on the large monitor. I also make
extensive use of the QuickLaunch bar, and the programs soon learn which
monitor they should load on.

That custom setup accomplished, you are now in a position to see some of
the startup, performance and memory management advantages of Windows 8.1. I
can only say that I'd never consider going back to Windows 7. I still have
a copy of it, but it's on a separate box entirely, and I find myself using
that box less and less -- just for large downloads and for running Ubuntu
Linux.

I have one more customization of the Win 8.1 laptop planned. I recently
read a net piece on how to hook up two external monitors to a laptop.
That's next. I'll have three monitors, two external and the laptop monitor.
That will be very cool.

My $0.02.

Arthur
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