the latest version of windows - its shit.

[hobbit.]

so what is supposed to be so good about the latest version? ive just spent two days getting my updated laptop to work - the other one, not updated works just fine.

fuck you microsoft you bunch of cunts,

 

[oggbashan]

MS-Dos was much more reliable.

 

[hobbit.]

arent all version of windows ms dos based though? (in some kind bastardised way)

gone are the days of illuminated manuscripts crafted by monks. its a travesty.

 

[Champakian]

Isn't that the tagline for every new version of windows?


Just curious. Mac user...

 

[oggbashan]

arent all version of windows ms dos based though? (in some kind bastardised way)

gone are the days of illuminated manuscripts crafted by monks. its a travesty.

That is part of Windows' problems. From the start, Windows was never written from scratch as an operating system. Each version built on previous work and has become more and more complex without thinking 'Should we start from here? Or start anew?

 

[bellisarius]

DOS had it's issues too. Anyone remember DOS 4.0? That one had a shorter lifespan than Vista. Kildall should have never gone flying the day IBM came to visit.

 

[Champakian]

The university ran on DOS and ancient, buggy equipment.

I was saddled with a hard drive that literally had to be booted before it would fire up.
I learned to wear my steel-toed shoes to work.




Then they purchased the Mac toasters for us.
Same damned hard-drive though...

 

[oggbashan]

The university ran on DOS and ancient, buggy equipment.

I was saddled with a hard drive that literally had to be booted before it would fire up.
I learned to wear my steel-toed shoes to work.




Then they purchased the Mac toasters for us.
Same damned hard-drive though...

At my last place of work for someone else (in 1991), the mainframe used eight-inch floppies. Most of the PCs were using C/PM. The staff were delighted when we got some Amstrad 1512s.

 

[Champakian]

DOS machines made me a Mac man for life.


I had to always do two versions of the office software at the university.
One for the Mac users and another for use on DOS platforms to mimic
the keystrokes of the office gals who refused to adapt from the way
they had always entered their data with their antiquated software.

Upgrading the machines was easy. Upgrading people?

FORGET ABOUT IT!

 

[oggbashan]

DOS machines made me a Mac man for life.


I had to always do two versions of the office software at the university.
One for the Mac users and another for use on DOS platforms to mimic
the keystrokes of the office gals who refused to adapt from the way
they had always entered their data with their antiquated software.

Upgrading the machines was easy. Upgrading people?

FORGET ABOUT IT!

My office used a dedicated word processing system for the secretaries and typing pools (Remember them?). That system was taken over by a Norwegian company that updated the software. I was the IT person to look after that system. If the error messages were in English? A simple problem. If in Norwegian? Oh shit! That's major.

 

[Champakian]

I've never been in an environment with a typing pool,
but I have had experience with secretaries and
they all believed that they were in charge.

Their bosses hid behind closed doors.

No boss is as cowardly as a
university administrator...

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

so what is supposed to be so good about the latest version? ive just spent two days getting my updated laptop to work - the other one, not updated works just fine.

fuck you microsoft you bunch of cunts,

I posted basically the same thing a couple of months ago about Windows 10 being a hot mess.

 

[oggbashan]

I've never been in an environment with a typing pool,
but I have had experience with secretaries and
they all believed that they were in charge.

Their bosses hid behind closed doors.

No boss is as cowardly as a
university administrator...

I used to recruit Secretaries for my boss. I got them from an actors' agency and offered temp work in between acting engagements. He and they were happy. He? Because they were all very intelligent and skilled. Them? Because being a Secretary paid more than most acting roles. Three months as a Secretary would pay the bills they couldn't afford when acting.

The rest of the staff could be surprised to see stage names they recognised as the boss's secretary. If the Secretary was offered an acting job? There was usually enough notice to get a replacement and the supply was always more than my need, even when the bosses of other departments asked me to recruit some more temp Secretaries. At the peak I was employing six at once.

 

[Champakian]

You could have been making office porn!


There's a thread here that just won't die.
It must be a lucrative endeavor...

 

[oggbashan]

You could have been making office porn!


There's a thread here that just won't die.
It must be a lucrative endeavor...

It was sometimes disconcerting to walk into the Secretary's office and find her rehearsing her next role, particularly if she was a singer...

As part of my responsibilities we made training videos - usually boring such as 'How to spot a dry-soldered joint'. But for the personal management ones we hired John Cleese to do the presentations. He was very professional and easy to work with. For some of the other videos, we sometimes borrowed a boss's secretary. Their acting skills were way above our engineers.

 

[Champakian]

You have to lack imagination to be an engineer.

I would never drive over a bridge erected by the Actor's Guild.

 

[oggbashan]

You have to lack imagination to be an engineer.

I would never drive over a bridge erected by the Actor's Guild.

But when producing a video for engineers? Real actors are much better - (and cheaper!).

 

[Champakian]

I'd just hand them a manual; no sense in taking them out of their comfort zone.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Nerds...

 

[oggbashan]

I'd just hand them a manual; no sense in taking them out of their comfort zone.

My video team could and did produce scripts for the video. The actors' input on how it should be delivered (and probably rewritten) was helpful. We didn't want Shakespeare. We wanted videos that people would understand. Our video production team made a small profit each year - better than the management had expected.

 

[OldBrummie]

Hi Bellisarius. That story about Gary Kildall is an old one. He went flying that day because he did not work on contracts. That was his wife and they turned IBM down because the contract being offered was crap.

 

[Chernosoth]

My list of lightweight linuxes for old and slow machines is currently two names: Peppermint and Lubuntu. I've been using Ubuntu-based linuxes so long I forget what exists outside Ubuntu.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

DOS machines made me a Mac man for life.

You complain about your Mac constantly, AJ.

 

[Rt127]

Microsoft is shit!!!!

 

[hobbit.]

I posted basically the same thing a couple of months ago about Windows 10 being a hot mess.

so here we are 24 hours later, its a stinking pile of rotting shit. spent all day chasing its problems down, loads of short fixes, but not a one that sticks. its so obsessed with security that the best way is not to use it.
Ive now stopped using google as one work around and use cyber ghost browser instead.

My video team could and did produce scripts for the video. The actors' input on how it should be delivered (and probably rewritten) was helpful. We didn't want Shakespeare. We wanted videos that people would understand. Our video production team made a small profit each year - better than the management had expected.

would it be wrong to suggest that Microsoft get Alec Baldwin to do there training videos?