Yup. I realized this past couple of days that my defining experience at work will be with the tools I use: Lotus, Sametime, and Eclipse. They look and act the same under any OS they're on, so *while I'm in those apps*, it's really not *that* important what OS I'm running on.
Which leads to another speculation - perhaps this is why locked-in suite apps are the popular norm under Windows? Ie, they have to provide the user with an all-encompassing experience, because it's just too much work to step outside of it, and expect your tools to interact? *shrug* Dunno. I just know that I'm beginning to realize why people think computers are hard, and scary... they've been beaten over the head with that for years.
I guess I'm much more of the Unix mentality - give me an array of specialized, small, focussed tools that do their jobs very well, and let me pick and choose the ones I need, then combine the results easily. I hate fiefdoms in my computer as much as I do anywhere else.
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Which leads to another speculation - perhaps this is why locked-in suite apps are the popular norm under Windows? Ie, they have to provide the user with an all-encompassing experience, because it's just too much work to step outside of it, and expect your tools to interact? *shrug* Dunno. I just know that I'm beginning to realize why people think computers are hard, and scary... they've been beaten over the head with that for years.
I guess I'm much more of the Unix mentality - give me an array of specialized, small, focussed tools that do their jobs very well, and let me pick and choose the ones I need, then combine the results easily. I hate fiefdoms in my computer as much as I do anywhere else.