My previous note notwithstanding, I use MS Office on my desktop because
it works for me. I've been with it several years.
I was really bummed when WordBasic was replaced with that other
really confusing language that may have made interoperability easy for
real programmers, but for me, when what I needed was a little less
sophistication ... anyway, I never learned to program with VisualBasic.
The good news there is that most of the macros I had developed
auto-converted and I haven't needed any more.
I don't use Outlook. For a bunch of reasons. I like some of its
interconnectivity, but it just doesn't work well for me -- which is why
I've never gone to WinMob.
So I'd have to say both my reasons for not wanting to switch are
operative. I'm used to PalmOS software -- Datebk, TakePhone, Jot,
eReader, DXTG and a few others AND I have played a little with a couple
of WinMobs friends have, and have never seen a reason a reason to
undergo the learning curve.
We all pretty much stick with the church we were raised in unless we
find a good reason for conversion. So far, I've not been able to
convince any of my experienced WinMob buds that PalmOS is better.
On the other hand, Thunderbird has progressed to v2.0. I upgraded
without really checking out the ramifications -- and found some of the
add-ons, including, most importantly PalmSync, hasn't made the upgrade.
And then I had to do some serious searching to find a v1.5.x installer.
So now I've got the older installer, I'm trying to decide whether to a)
downgrade TB, switch back to Eudora (which I used for several years and
own a registered version), or (shudder!!) bite the bullet and switch to
Outlook.
Reason? Keeping two address books is a royal pain. So if Palm
doesn't want to, and Mozilla can't, maybe I go the final step into the
dark side with OL.
So I still maintain most of us stay with what we've grown
comfortable using, until we're forced, with varying degrees of
willingness, to switch to something else.
And, IMO, it's that tension that keeps all teh choices trying to
improve -- to keep even the most reluctant among us from actually
switching sides.
Don Ferguson wrote:
> I think that applies in many cases, but not mine. The reason I'm still
> on PalmOS and not Windows Mobile is that there are several aspects of
> Windows Mobile - aspects that have been there since the Windows CE days
> - that have not been improved and are intolerable to me.
>
> While there are aspects of the current PalmOS that are not quite what
> I'd like, none of them is at the core of what I need the device for, and
> none of them is intolerable.
>
> To each his own, though!! I'm looking forward to seeing what the power
> of Linux paired with the design simplicity of the PalmOS user interface
> can bring to the market!!
>
> Cheers,
> Don
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J
> Messeder
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 8:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: 755p
>
> There lies the reason most of us stick with what we've got -- after a
> long period of use, it's not that we've collected so much software in a
> particular OS -- it's that in the time it's take to amass the
> collection, we've learned to use it.
>
> Scott Allen wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure I can say it better than Jeffery did. But I'd like to
>>
> add,
>
>> that with a new OS and new hardware comes a steep learning curve.
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--
/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/
