Terrald J. Smith, M.D. <tjsmith@...> wrote...

> I am not the only one that will be frustrated with this change.
>I am sure that several of my people will be leaving because they have no
>interest
>in going to all the trouble of learning how to use a new system.

My job gave up on the Mac about a year and a half ago and replaced
everything with Windows NT. Needless to say we are all experiencing "what
we deserve" with such a decision (my corporate employer penned a
collaboration with Mr. Gates and Apple quit using our services during their
more trying times).

The resources required to administer NT on our campus rival those required
to support the UNIX systems we have not to mention the disaster that
Microsoft Exchange as a mail system has become. The mail server only works
in the afternoons on days of the week that contain a "T". The cost is
astronomical but the corporate pin heads that understand nothing about the
technology and make decisions with their heads stuck where they'll only see
the light of day through a glass belt buckle are driving us all to
distraction. Top that off with "system administrators" who know nothing
about how their community of users use the systems they administer and you
get a picture of the frustration level.

As long as I can have my Mac at home and great products like FB so that I
can have some fun with the computer during my leisure time I guess I can
face going into the mire of Windows to earn a living. After all, I have to
face incredible traffic both ways each work day and it's only slightly more
painful than what I face at the office when I get there.

I realize that this list is not really the place to vent these frustrations
but, like Terrald said, at least the members of this list share a common
appreciation of "The Computer for the Rest of Us" and can sympathize, if
not empathize, with the misery that is Microsoft.


Charlie Dickman
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