2012/9/29 Tom Davies <[email protected]> > Hi :) > Just had a classic from my boss. He says he prefers Internet Explorer and > Adobe because he's never had any trouble with them. He can't download > Pdfs though and has the same problem at home. Firefox on his machine here > downloads them fine. When Foxit is set as the default Pdf reader then IE > does download. > > > Going to microsoft.com showed 26 important security updates that didn't > get installed through his auto-updates. None were about adding > functionality. Then java and different things needed to be updated > separately. The only updates (well upgrades really) that added > functionality were for Firefox and LibreOffice. > > > His Internet Explorer is still grumbling about some C++ problem in > iexplorer.exe whenever he tries to download pdfs. He still says there is > no problem with IE. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > <snip>
That was indeed a classic, Tom - of the «just works» tribe ! It may seem strange that people will believe propositions that are directly countered by their own experience, but that's been the case for thousands of years - and what public relations and advertising, not to mention religious organisations, base their considerable success upon.... Henri -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
