10. July 2009 by admin.

Have you used a piece of technology and felt it was “not quite ready for prime time?”  It seems like I encounter my fair share of stuff that falls in that category, working as I do in Tech Support.  A lot of people–a LOT–felt that Windows Vista was one of them.  For the most part that’s a fair assessment, but what’s not entirely fair is that a lot of people wrote Vista off completely.  Vista has become remarkably useable, secure, and stable.  No, I’m not a mouthpiece for Microsoft, and no, Windows is not the only machine I’m familiar with.  Vista has become what it should have been from the start.  Who remembers the introduction of Windows XP?  Only geeks like me actually liked it, but it was not what it should have been when it hit the streets.Our Personal Information Manager program (similar to Outlook–uses email, calendar, contacts, tasks) which I won’t mention by name requires a third party program to pull in all the non-email stuff to a PDA–smartphone device, palm device, iPaq, etc. Some functions of this program work flawlessly for most users; for some users, nothing works well, for other users some functions work well but others never work.  The software provider told us repeatedly that it was our server.  We moved all our accounts to be hosted on their servers.  Guess what–now EVERYONE is experiencing some sort of issues.  This software is not new.  The port to iPhone is new, and iPhone users are experiencing an inordinate amount of issues.  But this software for BlackBerry should have been ready for prime time by now.

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9. July 2009 by admin.

just like me.  And, pretty much like everything else I do, it’s probably going take a while to get from start to finish on any phase of it.  I love reading blogs but this is my first attempt at writing one.  I generally have a lot to say about nearly everything, and I bite my tongue a lot.  This is MY blog.  I don’t intend to offend, but if I do, just return to that part about it being MY blog.  The opinions expressed here are MINE.  I respect a different point of view, but unless there’s a compelling argument in favor of that point of view, I’ll probably stick with my own.  Don’t let that discourage you.

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