But most of the time, at least in my company, it's just the IT dept deciding some program is cooler that the program that "sheep" use. Sometimes the choice in a program at work is cost-driven. IT guys and regular people are on a whole different planet. We finally got Outlook for our e-mail after years of being forced to use "Groupwise" which IT loved, but which was so incompatible with the rest of the world, and we couldn't get certain e-mails or attachments. But the IT guys I know are all like "dude, you need Modzilla" or "Firefox" or somesuch thing. Like Internet Explorer: Everyone knows how to use it and it's compatible with every website out there. When you get some little-known "boutique" application that IT guys go on & on about, it usually stinks to us normal people! They are easier to use, and more compatible with other people. I really think that the most popular programs are most popular for a reason. Well, in 3 years, the stinkin' Black Ice has never worked and has caused all sorts of problems on the home computer. A relative (also an IT guy) said oh, no, Norton sucks, we need Black Ice. Why do so many IT guys insist on using some program that no one else uses, and reject the most popular programs?Īnother example: Most people have Norton Antivirus on their home computers. So I end up re-typing large paragraphs, or sending myself the files at home, where I can use Adobe to copy and paste sections of a pdf file. For my job I need to do a LOT of copying and pasting out of pdf files (like copying stuff from state laws and regulations to add to our policies) and with Foxit, we can't copy & paste like in Adobe. But our crack IT dept decided that Foxit Reader is better, and now we all have Foxit instead of Adobe. Most of the solar system has Adobe Acrobat to open pdfs. At work we used to have Adobe Acrobat to open pdf files.
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