At 12:16 PM 4/20/2005 -0400, Bill wrote: I'm a firm believer in avoiding platform "mine can spit farther than yours" discussions, but I need to say, out loud, at least once:
>It's not a proper Windoze ... Not to pick on Bill, but there's no way to address this without jumping on some poor unsuspecting poster... I find the "Windoze" reference offensive, and misplaced, on a list that is shared by developers, and customers, and Subscribers members in corporate environments. I'm sure it's "safe" on a list hosted by the manufacturer of one's favored environment, but I find it unprofessional. I hope you don't take this personally, Bill, because I think it's a cultural flaw in this community; I'm sure many more people smiled at your comment than took offense! And many more who have just put me in their Curmudgeons List than are thinking "you go girl". >implementation unless it's a pain in the butt. If >you're doing something on Windoze, and everything seems to be going along >smoothly, it's probably about time to reinstall something. > >But seriously, last year, with about half of my users on Macs of various >flavors and half on Win machines from '98 to XP -- ALL (100%) of the "it's >broke" service demands were for Win users. All. 100%. Every one. > >I have no experience with maintaining FMP7 on Win machines, yet, but don't >expect any pleasant surprises. Maybe this last paragraph explains why you experience what you describe in the previous paragraph. =:-0 And I can empathize with that. I'm much more comfortable maintaining Windows deployments than Mac ones, and ... Shame on me!! I should be totally comfortable in both environments if I were holding up my end of everything FMI offers me in this relationship I have with them. I once lobbied really hard for a DevCon "stop by any time" workshop on "demystifying Windoze for Mac developers" (hey, even curmudgeons know when to capitalize on something that will endear them to their potential attendees!). People could come in and do revolving installations of FMS on Windows, and pick up a white paper on Windows printing issues, etc. Couldn't sell it. And at this point, I would welcome the reverse, and would attend it with a micro-recorder: "demystifying OS X and all that UNIX junkola and permissions voodoo, for Windows developers." (again claiming the salesperson's license to spin, and not approving disparaging comments against what is probably the most elegant OS ever devised, about which I am woefully ignorant). For what it's worth, making a polemic statement and then ducking the consequences with "I was just kidding" (not attributed to Bill, but did make it into this thread) is like a lawyer in a courtroom making an unacceptable statement and following it with "I withdraw that statement." Yeah, right. Apologies to those who consider this prolonging a thread that went awry already. Anne -- To unsubscribe: send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FMPexperts is hosted by Ironclad Networks <http://www.ironclad.net.au/>
