For the record, I use Microsoft as little as possible. I don’t use it at all at home (in a couple months, I’ll be a 7-year Linux user). Unfortunately, I’m stuck with using Windows at work, although I still use Firefox and LibreOffice instead of IE and MS Office. If I didn’t have some industry-specific, Windows-only applications I had to run at work, I’d ditch Windows there, too.
But back on topic, I did have an interesting conversation the other day with someone who wanted “Adobe” on their computer. So I went through the list of software. Acrobat? Photoshop? InDesign? Illustrator? Reader? Fireworks? Dreamweaver? Flash? Premiere?
“No, none of those. I need, you know, Adobe!”
After a few more minutes, I discovered she wanted to make PDFs on her computer.
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You should have delivered a mud brick to her desk.
Anonymous
I used to have a coworker like that (a fellow IT guy). He would say “Joe Blow there needs full adobe!” He always thought the dirty looks I would give him after statements like that were because I didn’t want to do it.
Guest
Heh… You could have installed FrameMaker just to have a little fun!
I work for a major university, and we have some forms that require Acrobat Pro for PDF417 rendering. Adobe Reader will not function for these, but I get the same “But I have Adobe!” bit.
Anonymous
She’s probably carrying around an iPad and IPhone because “it’s the thing to the do” not because she understands a thing about them.
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