-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of steve harley Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2010 11:30 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: K-7 replacement?
On 2010-05-01 03:35 , John Coyle wrote: > I started with computers in 1982, when the hot PC's were Commodore 64's and > Amiga's, with the TRS-80 the hobbyist machine. Amiga was hot (i had one), but it came out in 1985 Ok - memory drop-out, it was a long time ago! > I think it just has to be accepted that unless Microsoft and Windows will > dominate the commercial and home use markets for many years to come because > it's now much too hard for companies and people to make the change: the > costs in re-training and replacing hardware and legacy software would be > unacceptable. in fact the world is moving to the web and also to mobile platforms; Microsoft is off balance and vulnerable in both areas; the costs you mention are a requirement for businesses to compete anyway, so not a real impediment Not sure that that is necessarily so in every case: spreadsheets, reports, correspondence, accounting all have security issues which would be of concern if they were compromised to most organisations. Should the security be breached for most of those for which I have worked, this would be major problem. I know that 'the cloud' is currently being touted as the way of the future, but IMO, it's not a viable model for confidential documents, nor the sort of quick little document or spreadsheet that does not need to be available outside the organisation and is often produced by lower-level staff. Sure, promotional material, on-line retailing, even on-line inventory/parts listings for non-retail sales, inter alia, are certainly most effectively made available to everyone who may be looking for a product or service, and the web is the ideal platform for that: I do it for my own small business, and get most of my projects through on-line searches. But, no way in the world do I need or want to use on-line storage for either my business records or my personal data. I'm not sure what the model is in the US, but here in Australia significant amounts of on-line storage are very expensive, and since most individuals are limited in the volume of uploads and downloads they can use before being shaped, it just would not work. My grand-daughter is quite capable of downloading 500MB of music in a couple of hours: my monthly quota would not last long at that rate! It's an interesting game, predicting the future in computing: a year or so ago I went through a stack of old computer magazines, and it was fun to read again about all the exciting things which were going to change the face of computing over the years and just never made it into the real world. John in Brisbane -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
