Soldato
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Yes indeed, I just pondered why in all the versions of word did they never update it to allow for embedded jpegs? is this simply impossible?
Why do people put images in word documents to send them via email?
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Yes indeed, I just pondered why in all the versions of word did they never update it to allow for embedded jpegs? is this simply impossible?
Or why mspaint only allows you to save as a BMP, then you have to open in image viewer and save as a JPEG/GIF.
Fortunately they sorted that from Vista onwards, but it's still pretty daft that they stuck with BMPs for so long. Reading the wiki page, it looks like it's something to do with the way the BMP is loaded into memory and accessed by the API for the graphics driver. Performance, universal access/compatibility?
In short, I think Microsoft's lazy approach to coding is why it survived for so long as the OS's go to image standard.
Fortunately they sorted that from Vista onwards, but it's still pretty daft that they stuck with BMPs for so long. Reading the wiki page, it looks like it's something to do with the way the BMP is loaded into memory and accessed by the API for the graphics driver. Performance, universal access/compatibility?
In short, I think Microsoft's lazy approach to coding is why it survived for so long as the OS's go to image standard.
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Theres too many people in this thread who think users are morons or incompetent. It's the fact that a lot of users only know one way to do something and calling them worse than a pile of dog poo doesn't help.
True again, but you can't account for every case and more often than not I've found that even after educating users they still insist of doing something the "wrong" way because that's how they've always done it.
Not to forgot that in the company I work for, they wear their job titles of "technical specialist" or "principal consultant" with a badge of honour. Yet when it comes down to employing common sense like not using a word document to send a 6mb BMP which needs to be manipulated before it can be of any use, their technical understanding of the platforms they claim to be competent users of becomes all too clear.
I agree, education (if adhered to) is the fastest way to reduce these sorts of occurrences but some people, sadly, are just beyond help.
Not to forgot that in the company I work for, they wear their job titles of "technical specialist" or "principal consultant" with a badge of honour. Yet when it comes down to employing common sense like not using a word document to send a 6mb BMP which needs to be manipulated before it can be of any use, their technical understanding of the platforms they claim to be competent users of becomes all too clear.
I agree, education (if adhered to) is the fastest way to reduce these sorts of occurrences but some people, sadly, are just beyond help.