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On Wednesday 03 October 2007 02:01, Julian Hall wrote: > Simon Robert wrote: > > user friendly is not subjective. > > <snip> > > Agreed wholeheartedly. I would say that 'user friendly' fiendishly deceptive and enormously subjective. The W$ approach makes it so much easier for the user to do certain things that that all they do - rather than the things they should do. Now you can write 10 documents that no-one reads in the time it took to write one and have it ignored by everyone on your network rather than just the receivers of the original 3 paper copies - one of which was a filing cabinet. You can do it in the fonts and layout of your choice - why because you haven't read the document that someone else in your company wrote about company standards. Its very user friendly of M$ systems to effectively hide all information in documents and spread sheets and powerpoint presentations. Its not very 'user friendly' to try and organise your data and work flows and other resources because this requires thinking about what you do. It would also turn out to be fantastically useful to almost any company - you could generate all your documents from this data and search it in an instant and actually use the computers to improve your company. But its a lot more user friendly to write a document about it that no-one will read..... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html