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I've been teaching IT in Adult Ed for a number of years now. At the moment I use a Mac at home, and use two PC networks at work. The first of these, the Intranet, if you will, I use to communicate and share resources with my colleagues, is running Windows XP Professional on a Citrix (Shitrix) metaframe, has never been upgraded beyond Office 2003 and the current version of the browser is still Explorer 6 (E6 for FFS!). The learner network, the one I use to teach on, is also running XP but has Office 2007 loaded on it and Explorer 8. In another room, we have Windows 7 and Office 2010. For a number of tedious security reasons, the networks are not allowed to talk to the other and you are not allowed to use memory sticks on the Intranet. Which makes for an extremely frustrating working environment, I am constantly having to jump from one computer to another just to do a screenshot, or email myself stuff.

Lets be honest, XP is a pile of shite, it's an Operating system that was designed as an afterthought. They do seem to have made some sensible improvements to Windows 7 and I'm reasonably impressed with Office 2007 on a PC - Microsoft do at least seem to be thinking about the functionality of their software and how the end user might actually use it, and for once it actually looks like they might have employed a graphic designer. The thing that really irks me is the complete lack of any consistency, things rarely work as they should, or as you expect them too, you frequently find that things like flash or Java haven't been installed properly and you can't fix anything yourself because the technicians won't give you access rights!

What you describe sounds like a number of Interview situations I've been in, I've had beautiful gradient filled blue backgrounds turned vomit green by a PC colour schemes and dodgy projectors.
(Nitrous Nitrous, Fri 16 Mar 2012, 10:33, Reply)