At 06:40 2016-02-23, Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote:
There are no technical reasons why I shouldn't
have been allowed to continue to run Office 97 on Windows 7
Endless backward compatibility is unrealistic and there is a point where providing some aspect of it costs a company more than it's worth in user retention. Should Microsoft or anyone else really have to deal with all the heartache of enabling and supporting 16-bit software on a 64-bit OS at this point in time, especially when there are solutions like virtualisation and containers? Windows does a better job than almost anything bar certain big-iron mainframe operating systems in this respect.
MS has blown that off as of now.
I have an issue on getting a SharePoint 2013 SSRS report to actually print. I have a document made that identifies all of the components that might be out of spec and how in my situation all are to the reported spec.
It is frigging complicated that the report will render but the printer icon won't render to allow someone to print it.
We have this as a bug reporting to M$ currently. Company has unused consulting $ in our annual contract and it renews after Feb. Maybe we can get a better story from the horse mouth because too many times web searches have ending statements like Still doesn't work and no more posts from M$.
Need to kill some time? Install SharePoint and attempt to round up cats as a "better way to collaborate" at work. I have document management issues that need a solution to implement in SP. Too many need to be annually updated and re-certified that a custom app is on the horizon to do this. In the end the app will post the final copy to the correct plan site out of 20 different ones we have. Oh yeah the joy is sometimes the document needs to sent to multiple locations as well.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
At 06:40 2016-02-23, Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote:
There are no technical reasons why I shouldn't
have been allowed to continue to run Office 97 on Windows 7
Endless backward compatibility is unrealistic and there is a point where providing some aspect of it costs a company more than it's worth in user retention. Should Microsoft or anyone else really have to deal with all the heartache of enabling and supporting 16-bit software on a 64-bit OS at this point in time, especially when there are solutions like virtualisation and containers? Windows does a better job than almost anything bar certain big-iron mainframe operating systems in this respect.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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On 26/02/16 14:20, Alan Bourke wrote:
Windows does a better job than almost anything bar certain big-iron mainframe operating systems in this respect.
I never knew Linux was a "big-iron mainframe operating system". Wow! I'm big time now!
Any Linux distro I've ever used hasn't even been in the same ballpark in this respect.
On 02/26/2016 03:07 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
Any Linux distro I've ever used hasn't even been in the same ballpark in this respect.
Google might beg to differ. It runs largely on Linux, running a combination of Python, Java, and Go on top.
Of course, you may have your preferences. I know that I certainly do. But you cannot honestly disparage something which has single-handedly resulted in the internet as we know it. It may not be your thing, but godammit lots of people have figured out how to make lots of cool stuff happen that didn't exist before them.
I got into this business because it was always doing new cool things, and each thing it was able to do was more impactful than the previous. I can tell you that IBM is doing some incredible things with Linux on their System Z mainframes that would simply not be possible on Windows. So please enjoy where you are without feeling the need to knock other approaches to this computering thing.
So please enjoy where you are without feeling the need to knock other
approaches to this computering thing.
Bingo! We have a winner, Ed.
Mike
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 8:51 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF][RANT] I need to stop playing 20 questions...
On 02/26/2016 03:07 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
Any Linux distro I've ever used hasn't even been in the same ballpark in this respect.
Google might beg to differ. It runs largely on Linux, running a combination of Python, Java, and Go on top.
Of course, you may have your preferences. I know that I certainly do. But you cannot honestly disparage something which has single-handedly resulted in the internet as we know it. It may not be your thing, but godammit lots of people have figured out how to make lots of cool stuff happen that didn't exist before them.
I got into this business because it was always doing new cool things, and each thing it was able to do was more impactful than the previous. I can tell you that IBM is doing some incredible things with Linux on their System Z mainframes that would simply not be possible on Windows. So please enjoy where you are without feeling the need to knock other approaches to this computering thing.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Michael Glassman < MHGlassman@pioneerdrama.com> wrote:
So please enjoy where you are without feeling the need to knock other
approaches to this computering thing.
Bingo! We have a winner, Ed.
Mike
I'm pretty much to the point of just assuming everything is Evil, so plan accordingly.... <g>
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