on 1/30/01 12:38 PM, Bill Wood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The Mac community knows the Windows community, but the Windows community
> essentially has no idea about Macs and if they do, they don't want to know.
> Interesting paradigm.
That usually tells you which community is the smarter one - especially in my
business, where it's usually the Mac users and consultants that end up
providing solutions for the Win-based IT depts that are stumped by "Duh!"
problems.
I guess it's that whole 'dinosaur vs. mammals' thang.
> Although in one of the larger centers of my province, Mac rules in
> multimedia. As one producer put it 'Nothing can touch it'.
Yeah, but in the case of one my clients, they have an IT dept that is
hell-bent on converting the graphics and creative groups over to Windows -
disregarding the fact that the last time this was attempted almost all
productivity came to standstill, the creative folks threatened to leave, and
people were fired over the stupid decision - and Macs were reintroduced at a
huge expenditure after the 'experiment' was over... They are still trying
ritual suicide...
> Radio of course deals with a lot of text, and I'm to 'learn windows'. It's
> the ease of installing, and uninstalling I'll miss. There are so many bits
> of information in Windows apps, and I have no idea what is junk and what
> isn't. That's what I'll miss. The ability to clean my machine, doing a
> clean install and initialize, open code, shareware that's truly good,
> utilities that are unbelievable .... That's what I'll miss.
Easy solution - every time you want ANYTHING done, even the smallest
addition or installation, call their help desk, insist on needing help
*right now*, and keep tabs on the number of support calles per week you
generate, including the reasons.
The point with suits is to make financial sense, and they were sold on the
Win switches by virtue of 'cost-savings' -- when you can demonstrate that
the Win switch actually ends up costing them far more, you have a very good
financial case for getting a Mac back in the next fiscal year.
Follow the money -- and make it work for you.
Harry
>
> Without slightly my MS friends, I have become a Dummy for Office.
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