I had most of the paperwork completed for a move down there back in 1954 when I was 22, but then I got an offer of a better job with the employer I was with here, and didn't complete it. I've always wondered how that might have worked out.
And as for "the good ole U.S. of A." most of the technology I'm using to do this blog comes from there, and I helped test the Windows 7 that's running it. Even before that, I sent in a long email at the request of a little gal named Sally at Microsoft Support, after we'd been discussing Windows and what was wrong with it, and what I'd like to do to fix it if I could. I made some suggestions, with reasons for them, and Sally asked if she could pass it up the line to her superiors, and I said "Please do!".
A few months later, we were all being invited to help test Windows 7 and it has just about everything that I'd said I'd like to see in an operating system, plus other features I hadn't thought of myself. All in all, I got what I had asked for - a program that runs almost anything ever made for Windows, and the company that makes it is now a lot more responsive to its customers. As I had said, we the unwashed masses don't know anything about writing code, but we do know what we like, and what we want, and what we mostly want is a software maker who accepts suggestions and tries to give its customers what they want, bearing in mind that we're the ones who are paying for it.
It seems that Mighty Microsoft has finally got the message, and now does welcome suggestions from its users, and we're all better off for that. I'm happier with my Windows, and they're enjoying better relations with their customer base. Because, as I also pointed out to little Sally, you can catch a lot more flies with Honey than you can with vinegar. And they're now proving that - the market share for Windows 7 is now above that of XP, to which the business community had been clinging, due to the cost of changing. Windows 7 is the fastest selling Windows Operating System yet, and I think that's partly the result of ten million of us all helping to test it and send in our feedback and suggestions about it. By the end of that test period, those of us with a test version were already convinced it was a winner, and many of us have been using Windows 7 ever since its first beta test version came out in January of 2009. I've had it on one of my two computers ever since then, first as a test version, and then later in its retail version, and right from day one it has been a rock-solid reliable program that literally kicked the stuffings out its predecessor. Windows 7 is everything that Vista was supposed to be but never was, and then some, and I'm very happy with it. I'm also very glad that little Sally and I had that series of email chats about all that stuff. It's much nicer when everyone's on the same page and working as a team.
"As I had said, we the unwashed masses don't know anything about writing code, but we do know what we like, and what we want, and what we mostly want is a software maker who accepts suggestions and tries to give its customers what they want, bearing in mind that we're the ones who are paying for it."
Gee, sounds like the Government of the Good ole US of A could take this as an example. :-)
As you know Ray, the good ole US of A...
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ReplyDeleteI had most of the paperwork completed for a move down there back in 1954 when I was 22, but then I got an offer of a better job with the employer I was with here, and didn't complete it. I've always wondered how that might have worked out.
And as for "the good ole U.S. of A." most of the technology I'm using to do this blog comes from there, and I helped test the Windows 7 that's running it. Even before that, I sent in a long email
at the request of a little gal named Sally at Microsoft Support,
after we'd been discussing Windows and what was wrong with it, and what I'd like to do to fix it if I could. I made some suggestions, with reasons for them, and Sally asked if she could pass it up the line to her superiors, and I said "Please do!".
A few months later, we were all being invited to help test Windows 7 and it has just about everything that I'd said I'd like to see in an
operating system, plus other features I hadn't thought of myself. All in all, I got what I had asked for - a program that runs
almost anything ever made for Windows, and the company that makes it is now a lot more responsive to its customers. As I had said, we the unwashed masses don't know anything about writing code, but we do know what we like, and what we want, and what we mostly want is a software maker who accepts suggestions and tries to give its customers what they want, bearing in mind that we're the ones who are paying for it.
It seems that Mighty Microsoft has finally got the message, and now does welcome suggestions from its users, and we're all better off for that. I'm happier with my Windows, and they're enjoying better relations with their customer base. Because, as I also pointed out to little Sally, you can catch a lot more flies with Honey than you can with vinegar.
And they're now proving that - the
market share for Windows 7 is now above that of XP, to which the business community had been clinging, due to the cost of changing. Windows 7 is the fastest selling Windows Operating System yet, and I think that's partly the result of ten million of us all helping to test it and send in our
feedback and suggestions about it.
By the end of that test period, those of us with a test version were already convinced it was a winner, and many of us have been using Windows 7 ever since its first beta test version came out in January of 2009. I've had it on
one of my two computers ever since then, first as a test version, and then later in its retail version, and right from day one it has been a rock-solid reliable program that
literally kicked the stuffings out its predecessor. Windows 7 is everything that Vista was supposed to be but never was, and then some,
and I'm very happy with it. I'm also very glad that little Sally and I had that series of email chats about all that stuff. It's much nicer when everyone's on the same page and working as a team.
"As I had said, we the unwashed masses don't know anything about writing code, but we do know what we like, and what we want, and what we mostly want is a software maker who accepts suggestions and tries to give its customers what they want, bearing in mind that we're the ones who are paying for it."
ReplyDeleteGee, sounds like the Government of the Good ole US of A could take this as an example. :-)