My users can't get their usernames and passwords right. One person this morning tried to use the mouse on the "Windows failed to start" screen and phoned me to ask why the cursor wasn't showing. They regularly put the wrong data into application fields and their grasp of spelling is atrocious. I can hardly see these lot, within five years, becoming "advanced technological users" who could be trusted to install software and manage Active Directory. If you did let them install things, I would spend my entire day cleaning up after them. Unless there is some massive evolution of the human race in the very near future, I'd say the whole thrust of that article is nothing more than hot air.
/User contempt end On 26 May 2010 13:47, Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Don't we see stories like this fairly often? IIRC there was a WSJ article > last year that said much the same thing but was little more than a rant that > he wasn't able to install the software he wanted. > > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <angu...@geoapps.com > > wrote: > >> Sometimes you have to wonder ... >> >> -----------------------fwd------------------ >> ============= Included Stuff Follows ============= >> Big Changes Ahead for IT - Anyone seen this? - Spiceworks Community >> >> This link comes from eWeeks Editor's Pick newsletter. The article is >> titled: "Radical Reductions in IT Workforce Ahead" >> By Edward Cone, CIO Insight >> May 21, 2010 >> >> Jobs may move to other areas of the company, be outsourced--or just >> go away. READ MORE... >> >> ============= Included Stuff Ends ============= >> More here with links: >> >> http://web.eweek.com/t?r=2&c=24763&l=23&ctl=739AC:1A76A774489FFA8BAB70058F2260825E&kc=EWKNLEDP05212010A >> >> Part of what they are trying to indicate in these slides is that less >> than >> 25% of today's IT workforce will remain by 2015, IT CIO's and those >> working in IT overall will be less in charge of their destiny, and IT >> activities will devolve to business units and will become consolidated >> with other departments like HR, Finance, etc. Almost everyone will be a >> knowledged worker and will in many ways be able to use and deploy IT >> apps >> and technology. >> >> Wow, I can't wait! I especially love slide # .... >> -------------------- end of forward --------------------- >> http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/99492?page=1 >> -- >> Angus Scott-Fleming >> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona >> 1-520-290-5038 >> Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
