Field observation would enable the users to give them enhanced experience. People would find themselves more at comfort with the application to use them to the max benefit. Users can take notes for enriched experience and subsequent applicability.
Agree Alison. I would think things will be easier for new generations. They are somehow exposed to how they could work with different platforms. There are similarities between OSs and new generations can easily figure out the discrepancies and their ways out.
Jason, I agree with your point for today and maybe tomorrow too, however, the new generation is being raised with Facebook, they can not handle Win7, there will be a point that new employees will not be able yo handle anything but iOS, Android, and Microsoft phone interfaces. Microsoft had to change the windows interface.
Hopefully, the person who gets a lot of job value out of knowing the hard-to-use production software will refocus on other things and be even more powerful in the future.
I switched from Windows to Mac in 2007. The principle are the same, which makes the switch easier, but relearning muscle memory literally gave me a headache for two days.
That was a fun article to re-read; I'd forgotten the details of my switch. I'm using Butler nowadays rather than QuickSilver, although I could probably just use Mac search, since all I really use Butler for is as an app launcher.
Alison, I also found that users tend to convert to Mac fairly seamlessly. There's a lot of to get used too, but it's very intuitive and helps users pick up on things rather quickly. I personally enjoy using a Mac far more than Windows, but in a Windows dominated society (at least in the work place) I have to keep up on both ends of the spectrum.
DrT, good points. I guess that raises a question though - do you think it's even worth going to Windows 8 from Windows 7? I mean, to be honest, Windows 7 appears to be far more appealing to businesses still and will probably remain that way until Microsoft realizes that Windows 8's platform is not really geared too well towards business.
It's certainly easier, short-term, to keep using the same old methods that you've always used, @DrT, but then you won't be getting the maximum value/productivity/bang for your Windows 8 buck. Watching people struggle initially with something like a new OS is very interesting, especially when it's so different from prior iterations as in this case.
It's been fascinating to see my daughter transition pretty seamlessly from Win7 to Mac with no formal training. I guess her familiarity with all other things Apple helped -- plus, of course, there's Apple's UI. OTOH, I switch back and forth daily between the two OSes and often try to use a Windows shortcut on my work Mac and vice versa!
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