28 Aug
2011
28 Aug
'11
7:52 p.m.
I have a suspicion that most prople (99%) who use these products don't even
consider the data archival activities of the producs. Users simply want to
use a program to make an output, be it a spreadsheet or letter, or resume.
Once the output is there, they probably don't care about getting it back.
The closest to caring that have probably come, is how to move their music
collection to a new digital player.
It is only a small minority of us who care about being able to get a file
back - And then, it is only a smaller set of us who actually can.
(sigh)
And - no - I don't believe that sticking it into the cloud will help.
My archival yardstick is my copy of "The Womens Journal' that I have on my
book shelf from 1820, and to compare, even a text editor to that.....
Nothing comes close to paper, and paper is not that long lasting.
Doug
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>wrote:
On 08/28/2011 09:32 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
MICROS~! has it down to a science.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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Doug Jackson
VK1ZDJ
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Now we could talk about all the world's data
locked up in MSOOXML...
Is that some sort of "cloud computing"/"there is only need for half
a
dozen computers"?
Yep, that's it. Boy are the people who fall for THAT crap going to be
surprised in a couple of years.
Well, the fools that use that kind of garbage get what they've got
coming to
them. Microsoft doesn't even TRY to hide their whole vendor
lock-in campaign. People who fall for it? Screw 'em.
Did MICROS~1 come up with that concept on their own, or did they lift that
one from Steve Jobs?