![]() ![]() I use it all the time and think I just might be the best application Microsoft ever came up with.This is from an assignment that i got when studying IT-SEC. I first was exposed to OneNote in 2012, and was hooked right away, but the thing that made it indispensable for me was it could find text in image files, come on that is sweet, real time OCR. Even my shopping list and the packing list for the camper is on OneNote as I can add something on my laptop or desktop and tick it off on my phone. OneNote has gone right up up to the top my list since it works synchronously on all my devices, I use it every day and I collect loads of items from the internet directly to it - I have different notebooks for different topics whether it is for learning German, recipes, SQL Server topics, WordPress, data for my web sites, general notes or shared with OH notes. I'd still say mostly the same today apart from WinDiff which has been replaced in my toolkit by WinMerge and Visio to which I no longer have access (job change, removal of the database linkage tools and I'm too stingy to buy it when I can use the online draw.io or OneNote). Oh and WinDiff for comparing scripted databases, stored procs and tables. Word, Excel Visio, Outlook and lately Notepad++, which is brilliant and handles larger text files than MS products, although I had to think about that one the other day when I did an update and lost my ftp facility. There is rarely a case where it is "just a toaster". Getting good quality tools for the job is important, but too many features can make the cost vs benefit not worth it. This allows me to keep up on both systems well enough to support everyone I need to. So I have a windows desktop and a few linux VMs. Working in the technical part of the company, I need to have some experience on every system I support (I don't support the MAC machines). where I work, we are a 90% Windows, 9% Linux, 1% MAC shop. The exception to that is when the company dictates what you can and cannot use. You need to have the right tools for the job. For the most part, hardware is about preference, but if you are doing sound processing (mixing and mastering) and trying to do that with onboard sound and a cheap CPU/GPU you are going to be grumpy. You may prefer to buy a pre-built system while I may prefer to build it myself. For example, you may need a laptop for what you do, while I may prefer a desktop. ![]() The same applies to hardware as well, but not as much anymore. The same applies to almost all other software as well - the OS, the offfice suite, the IDE's, etc. But if winzip is the 1 slice toaster and you bought it because it was all you had ever used and all you had ever needed, you may have made a mistake. If winzip fits your requirements, I see nothing wrong with buying it. There is very rarely 1 tool that suits everyones needs. That isn't to say that winzip isn't a good program or that it is bad that you bought it. Saying that all "zip" based tools are just toasters is like saying "my hammer can fix all problems". BUT if you are running a restaurant, an 8 slice toaster might not even be big enough for you depending on how much breakfast you sell. You only cook 2 slices at a time 80% of the time and 4 (when you are very hungry) the other 20% of the time and you have never needed to cook 8 at a time. You grab it because, if 2 is 100% better than 1, an 8 slice should be 400% better than 2. Then you hear about 2 slice "wide" (for a bagel or texas toast) and you HAVE to have that because your texas toast keeps jamming your current toaster. So you pick one up and it is so much better than the 1 slice toaster. Then you hear about 2 slice toasters that all of your friends have. If your software is "just a toaster", you will never know of all the better toasters out there.įor example, if you have a 1 slice toaster and have had that for years, you would be used to having toasted tomato sandwiches with 1 slice being cold. I am probably the "odd duck" in the group, but I don't find any software is "just a toaster".įor years, I just used notepad because it was pre-installed and I didn't need anything more fancy. ![]()
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