Wikipedia has a nice little writeup on qwerty in which you can clearly see the trouble I had today when I went to use a 'laptop' from Germany. its close, but not close enough. check out the 'z', 'y', loss of the '+' and '-' (in the standard locations). you don't have any idea how much of the expanded characters you use in day to day windows navigation until you've tried to use one of these baby's.
couple that with my inexperience in vista (and office 2007), and the fact that vista lost the 'run' ability from the start menu, and hyperterminal is now missing in vista and that made for one exciting unusable computer. oh yeah, no com port either. its strange how modern machines become increasingly less useful.
The fact that the OS was in german was only a minor inconvenience given the rest of the problems I had with the machine, OS, and office.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
German Qwerty
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i've been using vista at work for a few months now and i can't say i'm that impressed with the interface. i have a very hard time finding things and i still argue with it about file permissions.
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