Microsoft assumes that you'll purchase a site-license OS upgrade sooner or later. Are they wrong?
Not 100% wrong, but this is not about whether or not but whether you upgrade on your schedule or Microsoft's.
The rest of your post is bullshit five time over.
Nobody said anything about changing vendors. This is all about Microsoft trying to set customer's upgrade schedules or trying to get them to pay in advance for something extremely etheral.
Will we switch to Linux or Mac? No, our apps don't run on them but they do run fine on what we have thank you very much.
Five year lifetime for apps? Bwahahaha! Let me clue you in to something: Software can have lifetimes that far exceed the manufacturer's expectations.
We still use Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS to produce our bills. Why? Because it wasn't worth the effort to reproduce the same functionality in Word. In any case, our new accounting system does away with the need to use a Wordprocessor for billing anyway. We saved the excess development time and cost by continuing to use a product that met the needs of the firm with little risk or training overhead.
RTFA, This isn't about changing vendors, this is about upgrades from one vendor, whether you have the choice to upgrade or not and why paying for upgrades in advance is a losing game.
I am one of those IT managers that had a real problem with Microsoft's Licensing 6.0. By essentially forcing IT managers into pre-paying for upgrades every three years that they may or may not use and removing any possibility of customer loyalty upgrades, Microsoft went from fair preservation of their revenue flow to outright extortion.
Essentially you are being asked to pay a substantial amount of your IT budget for an upgrade sight unseen. Usually before you bring a product into your company you evaluate it for technical soundness and applicability to user needs and business requirements.
Microsoft seems to assume that their upgrades will always meet these requirements.
Maybe ir played the theaters in your town because they filmed it there, but the majority of America (almost half the TV-viewing public) saw it as a made-for-TV movie on ABC Sunday, 20 November 1983.
There had been a huge amount of hype before it played (I remember the TIME cover) related to its obviously anti-nuclear bias which was in direct conflict with the Reagan presidency's view that a nuclear war was survivable.
At around the same time one of the U.S. networks had a similar made-for-T.V. movie that was supposedly very controversial: "The Day After". However, it came off like an Irwin Allen disaster flick compared to Threads.
Put in a mail filter. Dop all.PIF,.EXE,.COM, etc., etc., including (nad this is the clever bit) all.ZIPs.
Either route to holding folder or just drop as we do. The number of legitimate.ZIPs we receive is so low that telling the sender to rename the attachment is feasible. They are also getting hammered by Bagle et al. so they understand.
Other than users who still forward us the defanged emails even after being repeatedly told not to do so, we have had no impact to the firm whatsoever.
How many times have we seen someone say "This is the beginning of the end" when a judge asks SCO to produce something Months pass, appeals are made, claims withdrawn and changed and the whole thing just keeps dragging on.
Reminds me of the conviction of Shoko Asahara for the Sarin gassing of the Tokyo subway. Only eight years to finally sentence him to hang.
But wait!
He's appealed, and thus begins another eight to ten years of legal wrangling. Each time the government says they'll speed up the court system but very little actually changes.
That was, unfortunately, the response I was expecting.
You had best change your sig to reflect reality. Until you have a unit, are testing it and providing feedback to Infinum Labs you are not a beta tester.
Latest technology survey from Law Office Computing had 80% of responding firms using Word.
Reasons: WP has not kept up with the times. No major new relevant features. Maybe the upcoming verison 12 will change that.
WP released several hopelessly buggy versions.
WP does not play well with current versions of the Document Management Systems (Interwoven, Docs) that are used by major law firms. Most legal-specific add-ons and document creation packages are targeted to Word first.
Legal document creation is a much more cooperative undertaking with clients especially large corporate clients who all use Word. Firms have discovered that converting back and forth is a nightmare so they go with Word to keep the process smooth.
We're working on something called the American Standard Code for Information Exchange.
Nah, too limited. Doesn't do Asian characters too well.
My point was actually to do with the way law firms think that every piece of information has to be in a word processor document file. When I started the firm's Christmas Card mailing list as well as their corporate records database were in WP 5.1 merge files. Did the job but not very flexible.
Much will be said about the continued use of WordPerfect in law offices where it has been a traditional choice. We still use WP 5.1 for DOS to create our bills but this is dictated by our ancient accounting system which will be gone by year-end. (Thank $DEITY)
However, any law firm sysadmin worth his salt recognized long ago that the current legal document creation paradigm involves cooperative collaboration with clients absolutely none of whom will be using any version of WordPerfect. In addition, the pool of new legal secretaries will all be coming with Word as their background. The look of shock on our new recruit's faces after they've gone through the WP billing section of their training is a sad sight but one that reflects the reality that, for even Wordperfect's most loyal users, the time has come to use what the market requires. Legal documents are no longer created in isolation.
OpenOffice is nice to dream about but the forces that dicate a move to Word for a firm of any size are what is currently keeping OO out.
The most successful law firms in the future will be able to define a new, non-document-based legal information exchange paradigm. We need to get past the days of everything being done in the word processor.
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Microsoft assumes that you'll purchase a site-license OS upgrade sooner or later. Are they wrong?
Not 100% wrong, but this is not about whether or not but whether you upgrade on your schedule or Microsoft's.
The rest of your post is bullshit five time over.
Nobody said anything about changing vendors. This is all about Microsoft trying to set customer's upgrade schedules or trying to get them to pay in advance for something extremely etheral.
Will we switch to Linux or Mac? No, our apps don't run on them but they do run fine on what we have thank you very much.
Five year lifetime for apps? Bwahahaha! Let me clue you in to something: Software can have lifetimes that far exceed the manufacturer's expectations.
We still use Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS to produce our bills. Why? Because it wasn't worth the effort to reproduce the same functionality in Word. In any case, our new accounting system does away with the need to use a Wordprocessor for billing anyway. We saved the excess development time and cost by continuing to use a product that met the needs of the firm with little risk or training overhead.
RTFA, This isn't about changing vendors, this is about upgrades from one vendor, whether you have the choice to upgrade or not and why paying for upgrades in advance is a losing game.
I am one of those IT managers that had a real problem with Microsoft's Licensing 6.0. By essentially forcing IT managers into pre-paying for upgrades every three years that they may or may not use and removing any possibility of customer loyalty upgrades, Microsoft went from fair preservation of their revenue flow to outright extortion.
Essentially you are being asked to pay a substantial amount of your IT budget for an upgrade sight unseen. Usually before you bring a product into your company you evaluate it for technical soundness and applicability to user needs and business requirements.
Microsoft seems to assume that their upgrades will always meet these requirements.
Google is used to find pages that mention topics. The listings returned have very little relevance to the reliability of the content.
If kids must be taught anything about web searching they must first be aware of that fact.
One correction: That magazine cover was probably Newsweek because I couldn't find it in Time's cover archive.
Maybe ir played the theaters in your town because they filmed it there, but the majority of America (almost half the TV-viewing public) saw it as a made-for-TV movie on ABC Sunday, 20 November 1983.
There had been a huge amount of hype before it played (I remember the TIME cover) related to its obviously anti-nuclear bias which was in direct conflict with the Reagan presidency's view that a nuclear war was survivable.
More info here and here.
Oh Christ, "Threads".
Don't remind me.
At around the same time one of the U.S. networks had a similar made-for-T.V. movie that was supposedly very controversial: "The Day After". However, it came off like an Irwin Allen disaster flick compared to Threads.
s/Dop/Drop
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Put in a mail filter. Dop all .PIF, .EXE, .COM, etc., etc., including (nad this is the clever bit) all .ZIPs.
.ZIPs we receive is so low that telling the sender to rename the attachment is feasible. They are also getting hammered by Bagle et al. so they understand.
Either route to holding folder or just drop as we do. The number of legitimate
Other than users who still forward us the defanged emails even after being repeatedly told not to do so, we have had no impact to the firm whatsoever.
Tired, very tired...
I am just re-reading my posting from yesterday and I can't believe I wrote that badly. I'm usually a spelling Nazi and always preview.
I will be SO damn glad when this frickin accounting system migration is done...
How many times have we seen someone say "This is the beginning of the end" when a judge asks SCO to produce something Months pass, appeals are made, claims withdrawn and changed and the whole thing just keeps dragging on.
Reminds me of the conviction of Shoko Asahara for the Sarin gassing of the Tokyo subway. Only eight years to finally sentence him to hang.
But wait!
He's appealed, and thus begins another eight to ten years of legal wrangling. Each time the government says they'll speed up the court system but very little actually changes.
Thank you.
That was, unfortunately, the response I was expecting.
You had best change your sig to reflect reality. Until you have a unit, are testing it and providing feedback to Infinum Labs you are not a beta tester.
Latest technology survey from Law Office Computing had 80% of responding firms using Word.
Reasons:
WP has not kept up with the times. No major new relevant features. Maybe the upcoming verison 12 will change that.
WP released several hopelessly buggy versions.
WP does not play well with current versions of the Document Management Systems (Interwoven, Docs) that are used by major law firms. Most legal-specific add-ons and document creation packages are targeted to Word first.
Legal document creation is a much more cooperative undertaking with clients especially large corporate clients who all use Word. Firms have discovered that converting back and forth is a nightmare so they go with Word to keep the process smooth.
Do you or do you not have a beta phantom console (Gen I or Gen II) in your possession?
Your NDA does not preclude you from stating that you have a unit, just doscussing any technical or operatinoal details in a public forum.
"Negative, I am a meat popsicle"
I can remember Horseshack saying things like that.
Or is some nostalgia channel running Welcome Back Kotter again?
We're working on something called the American Standard Code for Information Exchange.
Nah, too limited. Doesn't do Asian characters too well.
My point was actually to do with the way law firms think that every piece of information has to be in a word processor document file. When I started the firm's Christmas Card mailing list as well as their corporate records database were in WP 5.1 merge files. Did the job but not very flexible.
Much will be said about the continued use of WordPerfect in law offices where it has been a traditional choice. We still use WP 5.1 for DOS to create our bills but this is dictated by our ancient accounting system which will be gone by year-end. (Thank $DEITY)
However, any law firm sysadmin worth his salt recognized long ago that the current legal document creation paradigm involves cooperative collaboration with clients absolutely none of whom will be using any version of WordPerfect. In addition, the pool of new legal secretaries will all be coming with Word as their background. The look of shock on our new recruit's faces after they've gone through the WP billing section of their training is a sad sight but one that reflects the reality that, for even Wordperfect's most loyal users, the time has come to use what the market requires. Legal documents are no longer created in isolation.
OpenOffice is nice to dream about but the forces that dicate a move to Word for a firm of any size are what is currently keeping OO out.
The most successful law firms in the future will be able to define a new, non-document-based legal information exchange paradigm. We need to get past the days of everything being done in the word processor.
The Close Door buttons actually work.
So do pedestrian crossing buttons which after they take effect you are serenaded with some old Japanese tune (Animatrix) or the sounds of tweeting.
He's probably not alone. I had an ominous feeling that I was sure I'd seen that starry background on another questionable site.
He just made the psychic conection.
He was invited!
(CE3K)
This QT video isn't on their site but should be.
This guy is lucky to be alive. Rollover without seatbelt! Turn the sound up to hear his reaction at the end.
Here
So what do you say about the stability of the original design
That was falling with style.
Seriously, the wings gave him some forward momentum but he was dropping like a rock with wings all the way.