Don Stanwyck,
Well, you offered, so here are my problems.
I caution you that I already tried to get help in the FP issue and no one understood what
I was talking about.
Issue #1: My Adobe Photo Deluxe Home addition no longer works since I activated
OneNote2007. I do not wish to uninstall One Note because it has some valuable uses.
Issue#2: Under an older Excel version I used to be able to save a worksheet as a
Formatted Text file (space delimited).
I could then open a page in FrontPage 2003 and open that text file with <pre> tags
automatically. FP would add the code for me and do all the work. It no longer does that
with Excel 2007 or the updated version of Excel 2000.
This is not an earth shaking problem since I figured out a way to do that by first opening
the saved Formatted Text file from Excel in WordPad, save it, and then do a "Special
Paste" in FP2003. Then it would set up the code for me automatically. So, there is
one extra step involved now that I can live with.
When I asked for help with this FP problem I was given nonsense answers or I was treated
like I knew nothing about Excel or FP. Best to forget about that problem since I have a
work-around.
If you can fix the Adobe PhotoShop issue it would be appreciated. As it stands, I can not
even install the program. My computer will not let me since activating OneNotes2007.
I'm using Coral Paint Pro now instead of Adobe Photo Shop, but Coral is one million
times harder to use.
Thanks again, all is well that ends well.
Charles Barnum
---- Don Stanwyck <don(a)stanwyck.com> wrote:
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Charles:
First, Microsoft has announces sales and support of XP through 2009 (and
support usually goes 5 years beyond end of sales), so there is no rush to
Vista for people who don't want to go there. My home, for example, has 3
computers running and none of them are running Vista (they aren't
"Vista-ready" level computers). Don't go to Vista just because it's
there.
Upgrade to Vista if you have an appropriately powered computer and you want
the far better security model and features of Vista.
W.r.t Office 2007, I am running it. I agree it has a big learning curve,
but the market research very clearly says that once people get to know it
they like it far better, and people who haven't used an office suite before
strongly prefer the Office 2007 interface to the Office 2003 interface.
Obviously they didn't ask you or my wife (or me), but let's face it - most
of us old fogies don't much like change or learning curves. After a few
months of using it various Office 2007 components for most of my waking
hours, I'm getting used to it. There are still a few things that bother me,
but I'll figure them out too given enough time.
Vista and Office 2007 were responses to market demands - demands for better
security and better Office Suite interactions. The way XP was built didn't
lend it to meeting the security demands of the market. Vista was rewritten
from the ground up to address those concerns from the bottom up. One
problem any operating system faces is that it can't tell when you load a
program whether it is a program you intended to load or a program being
loaded by rogue software without your permission. Since it can't tell, and
you want very tight security, it has to assume all other programs - ones
that haven't gotten the appropriate digital signatures - are rogue software.
This results in older programs that were created before the digital
signature technologies were present and available being incorrectly
identified. Which would you prefer - to have it error on the side of
blocking valid old programs or to error on the side of allowing rogue
software to get loaded?
Anyway, my offer still stands. Bring me a problem (other than dislike for
learning a new interface) with any Microsoft software and I'll get it
addressed for you. I can't promise to make program written by other
companies run - especially if those companies have specifically ignored the
well-publicized need to update their own software to be compatible. I can
get MS problems addressed.
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: cogen-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:cogen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of Charles Barnum
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:52 AM
To: cogen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [COGEN] Maps and computers OT
Don Stanwyck,
I'm really glad to hear from you, Don.
I've owned MS products forever. But 45 seconds ago-literally, I was on a Mac
forum seeking information about Macs. I think there is building resentment
that MS comes out with new software every 3 or 4 years making existing
hardware and software obsolete. My next computer may be a Mac if I can get
away from the problems. They may be just as bad, I do not know.
Yes, I do realize that some software makers have not kept up with the new
developments at MS. I bought a graphic card a couple of weeks ago. I noticed
that some cards by the same company said VISTA ready and some did not. The
ones that did not have the VISTA ready notice on the box were selling for
one fourth to on half normal price. A person can get burned if they do not
pay attention to what they are buying.
The new tool bars for Excel and Word 2007 are like a maze. For instance, the
Spelling utility and the Thesaurus utility are on different tool bars in
Word! Word has seven different tool bars or tabs to find a specific utility.
I appreciate your input on this subject, Don. I do hope MS works more
closely with venders in the future by supplying patches to make older
programs and hardware work. Meanwhile, I will keep my computer running for
as long as possible by replacing failed parts including the motherboard
because I do not want to update ever again.
Have a great day,
Charles Barnum
---- Don Stanwyck <don(a)stanwyck.com> wrote:
As your local Microsoft representative (yes, I work for Microsoft's legal
department), if you have any real problems with vista or any other MS
product let me know and I'm quite willing to get you in touch with people
who can solve it for you. Please understand that all other vendors had more
than 2 years notice of what they needed to do to port their software to the
higher security that vista offers, and many still haven't started on it. MS
can't solve the problem of other vendors not wanting to provide their
customers with a more secure computing environment.
Don Stanwyck
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