Re: Not Amazing
I'd just like Excel to do 2+2= 4 instead of returning '2+2 as text. Quattro pro had no such problems
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Or worse - somebody else decides that they were offended by something that wasn't even said to them.
I had some banter with an old colleague on LinkedIn. All in good nature and we both gave as good as we received. Somebody else decided to take offence on behalf of my old colleague.
DaaS is also very expensive considering the requirements of most users.
For 99% of office work, all you really need is web browser and any OS. If you have a 365 subscription, try using all the Office Apps in browser form - they're surprisingly good.
I'm just surprised that MS haven't come up with a browser only version of Windows that hooks into OneDrive, Office 365 etc.
You can't tax turnover.
If I sell £1000 of software, I make about £200
If I sell £1000 of my time, I make £1000
Taxing turnover would need to take into account the mix of business. I'd have to stop selling software as the tax would probably be greater than the profit.
That's why we simplify and tax profit.
Go back 25 years. If 0.1% of the population believed the world was flat, chances are that they would never meet someone with the same stupid opinion. Now, with Twitter, they find millions to agree with them.
Combine that with some sort of social angle, and those millions can shout down anyone who disagrees with them with the rest of us too scared to intervene.
Qlik were well ahead of the game with their clever in-memory database technology. The move to 64 bit was timely for them too.
That was all very well when they were selling thick client technology. It was never quite so good with the move to a server for processing as the scalability was a hard problem.
Now, they have QlikSense which is just not as good as the old QlikView. In desperation, they've bolting all sorts of targetted products on to their range.
For those with long memories, Cognos PowerPlay was in a similar position in the mid 90s. Well ahead of the competition, but never managed the move away from client technology.
I've been made redundant twice. Dodged the 3rd one by leaving before the company went bust.
It's an unpleasant experience but with hindsight, has always worked out for the best.
Most of these people are highly skilled and will have no problems finding another job. The ones without useful skills can always work in the public sector.
Most users need less than ever. 90% of workload is in a browser. Even with the crappy JS that's being written, you don't need much.
For developers, so much is cloud based that you're not doing much on the client.
I now have a really powerful main PC to run lots of VMs.
For laptop, I'm using a 5 year old i5. It's a nice machine, but far more than I need to use RDP and a browser.
Even casual gaming is moving towards streaming.