Windows 7 More and More Like OSX

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Leopard wrote: »

Let me get this straight. In 2009, with Britain sliding helplessly into full-blown depression under a Prime Minister who hasn't got a clue what to do apart from hurl ever more billions of increasingly worthless pounds pointlessly into a bottomless pit and leave your children to pay it back in taxes for the next twenty years, you work for an organisation that chooses its computer operating system upon the basis of what your boss thinks personally about the attitude of a disproportionate number of its users? :eek:

What is your concept of sound management and job security?

Seems like a good idea, rather than picking the one with the prettiest graphics

M4RKM

if we're talking/joking about the microsoft/mac thing again...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8Luces7GrOw

*grins*

DatabaseError

Steady..Simmer...Settle...



No Trolling

Marty_J

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I was always partial to the GEM desktop

I believe Apple successfully sued DRI over that one.

Marty_J

Leopard wrote: »

As good an idea as picking the financial director with the prettiest legs.

Or the ugliest legs, as women with pretty legs are arrogant.

DatabaseError

Marty_J wrote: »

Or the ugliest legs, as women with pretty legs are arrogant.

Ahhhh...did she say "no"?

[Deleted User]

Nice one :beer:

Marty_J

DatabaseError wrote: »

Ahhhh...did she say "no"?

lol...she's got a ring on her finger, so I'd say not.

sweetstudent

I didnt know how much controversy my post was going to cause!!!!!!

Just to make you guys aware, i dont hate Microsoft, i just dislike Vista!!!!! lol, and Internet Explorer

superscaper

Leopard wrote: »

Let me get this straight. In 2009, with Britain sliding helplessly into full-blown depression under a Prime Minister who hasn't got a clue what to do apart from hurl ever more billions of increasingly worthless pounds pointlessly into a bottomless pit and leave your children to pay it back in taxes for the next twenty years, you work for an organisation that chooses its computer operating system upon the basis of what your boss thinks personally about the attitude of a disproportionate number of its users? :eek:

What is your concept of sound management and job security?

Considering all our projects are currently developed for windows based clients and all the international standard systems we have to build to only run on windows and linux servers anyway I don't think we've left out anything. Plus since our company is currently rapidly expanding (and at my last 6 monthly review I got more than 10% pay rise) I hardly think we're doing things wrong. Our main customers aren't exactly affected by the credit crunch (at least they'd be the very last ones to be). To be honest it's more funny than anything that my boss considers any Apple product in the company to be "illegal" (his exact words) since in reality if we were to start using any Mac it would actually seriously disable our developing ability and cripple what our business does since we don't develop for Macs and I don't know of any organisation in our current client market that even uses them.

My boss hates Apple itself and wouldn't use OS X, that's not the same as saying we currently use our development OSes based upon that. It may be a logically subtle difference to some but it's an important one. Put it this way, if he absolutely loved Macs we'd still be using the exact same hardware and OSes we currently use. If he were to choose OS X to the detriment (in a software developer environment and with our main customers I think choosing a Mac would be business suicide) of the business simply because he likes them then that would be bad management. Everything we use is only used because it is the most effective to achieve our end product, no more no less. If there was absolutely any significant practical use or advantage in using a Mac etc in our company then I don't think our company boss would put the personal attitude we're talking about over finances of the company in all seriousness. So what is your concept of sound management and job security?