Learning the General Environment (Windows common feature set)
So you hate learning new software - don’t blame you. Most learn-to-use-it manuals would weigh down a small truck. Yeah, I did my post graduate work on Microsoft’s new product…
Software Choices and Decisions
Earlier, we pointed to a series of questions that needed to be addressed before making a software decision.
product criteria establishment – determining the decision criteria for selection
product acceptance - testing to ensure criteria are met
product decision and selection
time to convert all of your documents and other files,
When it […]
“Daddy, why is the computer on fire?”
Open Source Software and Viruses/Malware
As said in previous posts, free software on the Internet has earned a bad reputation, especially with the early generation of internet users (people born before 1990). Shareware or freeware, as it used to be known, quickly developed a reputation for being badly built, […]
Vendor Hide and Seek
One of the challenges that has emerged over the past 15 years of software proliferation has been that software comes and goes. In part, that is the inevitable evolution of capability and functionality. In part it is driven by users demand for ever greater leverage of their investments in information technology. And […]
The Price and Cost of Open Source Software
There is price and cost, and there is free and not so free. Price is the amount of money that you pay to the vendor of the product for the right to use the product. Sometimes support is bundled into that price. Cost though is the price PLUS
What Is Open Source Software?
Most people have heard of and/or used Microsoft Office, the suite of productivity suites that can be purchased to run on Windows. Type documents, build spreadsheets, prepare presentations and databases; MS Office does it all. However, MS Office also depends on an outdated and increasingly obsolete process for software development. That […]
