Generational IT Differences
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there is rarely anything of benefit to the end user there and plenty which is against the end user's best interests.
I find I'm constant running into UI limitations.
For example I often have to record a team meeting which is saved to OneDrive and then edit it and copy it up to a SharePoint site.
If the SharePoint site is in my recently used sites I can just copy it directly to the new location and it's almost instant. If not there is no way to navigate to the SharePoint site. I have to download it and upload it to the new location. Which is a lot slower. Why there is no option except recent sites is baffling.
Another one they did is replace MS Stream with a new version called MS Stream. Whaaa? In some locations they refer to old version as MS Stream Classic.
Same with SharePoint we have a Team Collaboration Site, a Team Communication Site. None of this is MS Teams. Though every MS Team has an associated SharePoint Team Collaboration attached. Other than a tiny icon no way of knowing the difference. Then to top it all they have different and overlapping security models. Then trying to have a conversion about a project teams at work becomes a confused mess of people saying "Team" interchangeably.
Or Gmail. Why can I not manage labels and rules on my phone but only in the desktop app. Or outlook rules, some work server side some only in the desktop client.
Is Linux or OSX any better, more consistent?
For example I often have to record a team meeting which is saved to OneDrive and then edit it and copy it up to a SharePoint site.
If the SharePoint site is in my recently used sites I can just copy it directly to the new location and it's almost instant. If not there is no way to navigate to the SharePoint site. I have to download it and upload it to the new location. Which is a lot slower. Why there is no option except recent sites is baffling.
Another one they did is replace MS Stream with a new version called MS Stream. Whaaa? In some locations they refer to old version as MS Stream Classic.
Same with SharePoint we have a Team Collaboration Site, a Team Communication Site. None of this is MS Teams. Though every MS Team has an associated SharePoint Team Collaboration attached. Other than a tiny icon no way of knowing the difference. Then to top it all they have different and overlapping security models. Then trying to have a conversion about a project teams at work becomes a confused mess of people saying "Team" interchangeably.
Or Gmail. Why can I not manage labels and rules on my phone but only in the desktop app. Or outlook rules, some work server side some only in the desktop client.
Is Linux or OSX any better, more consistent?
You'll generally find that on social media that poorly moderated.
How companies get away with just allowing all the bile posted online baffles me.
Games are a good example of this, rarely are they released now without major issues.. early access being a thing.
It is one of the things that is primarily the internet's fault (amongst many others). When you can always fix things later, why bother to finish it?
The internet has made it so easy to update and upgrade things, that A. Nothing is ever finished properly, and B. You can seldom just learn how to use the current version of something, because it will likely keep changing constantly.
Because of this, company's can churn out new products and software at an ever increasing rate. We don't need a new iPhone/Galaxy every ***** year.
The internet has made it impossible for things to just "be" for any reasonable length of time. Everything always has to change, always has to be updated, always has to be new.
It is exhausting.
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I haven't bought a game for ages. Few are actually any good now.
In the old days a game needed to be compete and well tested. Printing a million disks with a najor bug on them could sink a developer.
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Old games also had bugs.
I remember Digital Integration Tornado (dos) combat sim had a bug with the early soundblaster cards that meant using the guns in the adv version crashed the game. Bit of a problem for a fighter.
Homeworld had bugs that meant you might not be able to complete a mission if you hadn't done something earlier. Which meant having to go back a long way to redo it over.
Falcon 4 had lots of issues that weren't fixed for years later.
I have a folder somewhere with all the fixes and patches of my old games. Probably haven't installed any of them in 20yrs.
I remember Digital Integration Tornado (dos) combat sim had a bug with the early soundblaster cards that meant using the guns in the adv version crashed the game. Bit of a problem for a fighter.
Homeworld had bugs that meant you might not be able to complete a mission if you hadn't done something earlier. Which meant having to go back a long way to redo it over.
Falcon 4 had lots of issues that weren't fixed for years later.
I have a folder somewhere with all the fixes and patches of my old games. Probably haven't installed any of them in 20yrs.
I was on to EE the other day and they said I will send you a text with passcode number on it.
I had to ask him how do I get to texts while talking on phone.
Give me a PC and landline phone anyday.
At least if I do get stuck with mobile I just nip over the road to Violet who sorts it out in seconds and she is only 7.
The reason kids can use phone so easily is they have better eyes than us old codgers.
I had to ask him how do I get to texts while talking on phone.
Give me a PC and landline phone anyday.
At least if I do get stuck with mobile I just nip over the road to Violet who sorts it out in seconds and she is only 7.
The reason kids can use phone so easily is they have better eyes than us old codgers.
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365 Admin is a good example of GUI moving backwards. The old ("Classic") GUI was much quicker.
Never understood the reason to make button or links completely indistinguishable from the body text in so much of Microsoft administrative applications.
What was wrong with clearly defined toolbars and buttons, meaningful titles on admin screens
Of course they are moving from GUIs to scripting everything in PowerShell. The irony of starting in DOS and ending up back there so many decades later.