Sunday, February 15, 2009

File Associations

One customer said their computer didn't print stuff off the internet properly and kept asking about File formats for Windows or MS-DOS. It turned out they were loading PDF files into Word, which was probably not a good idea. Apparently the computer's three months old - with date stamps of 2005, 2007 and 2004 on various bits inside. It probably came from Cash Converters as a refurbished machine. Why do people do silly things like buy stuff from Cash Converters of all places?

Programs are not transferrable between computers (many years ago when it was all fields round 'ere, it was possible to do that for programs that actually fitted onto a floppy!), yet people think you can copy a bunch of files across from one computer to another and expect it to work. Believe you me, if we could do that with Windows Microsoft would never sell another copy of Office.

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