I’m not the biggest Microsoft fan there is. People that know me, know that’s an understatement. But there is one thing worst than using Microsoft products and that’s: using LOCALIZED Microsoft products. My employer installs our laptops with a Dutch version of Microsoft Office. Probably to have a Dutch spellingchecker, I’m not sure. We all know that Excel excels in incompatibality between localized versions, since the formulas are translated as well. In Dutch “SUM” is “SOM”, “AVG” is “GEM” etcetera.
Now comes the good part. Microsoft Access comes with ODBC drivers for mindless programs that insist on slowing Access even further down by accessing it via ODBC. I tried to install an English trial version of PhotoShop Elements 5.0 today on my laptop, and it can not connect to it’s own database. Why? Because the program expects an English version of the driver. Come on people. This is 2007.
And why on earth did Adobe develop a program that accesses it own database via ODBC anyway? Are there people that hack PSE to use a MySQL database? Or Oracle? Tsssssk….stop pulling my leg.
Welcome to the modern world called Microsoft. I call it HELL.
I know, there is Picasa2. But have you looked at their tree-view? Since I don’t overwrite originals, I have lots of directories with a subdirectory called “edited”. Picasa2 just puts them all under eachother, so I don’t know which is which anymore… Why do people reinvent a treeview anyway? What is it with developers these days?