omelett.es » Windows for a Week http://omelett.es The journal of team omelett.es Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:36:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Week with Windows – Day 1: Not as bad as I expected! http://omelett.es/journal/2009/07/week-with-windows-day-1-not-as-bad-as-i-expected/ http://omelett.es/journal/2009/07/week-with-windows-day-1-not-as-bad-as-i-expected/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:59:25 +0000 Jake http://omelett.es/journal/?p=648

So I have gone the whole day using windows – most of my time today has been in IE and I’ve found a few visual tweaks to Tactile CRM that are being taken care of. All in all it was a lot less painful than I expected – main points are:

  • I got to use Chrome for the first time!
  • Windows doesn’t come with SSH client, PDF viewer or messenger app
  • I can’t rotate my screen in Windows like I can on a mac (identical hardware)

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I’m challenging myself as a mac user to run Windows for a week. I’ve got a fresh install of Vista on my iMac and I’m going to document how it goes.

The main reason for this is research for our Tactile CRM product – we develop on Macs and Linux in the office and test in Windows but we don’t really use the product in anger on windows. From a personal perspective I haven’t used Windows for about 10 years so I’m interested to see how it compares to OS X.

Windows for a Week from Jake Stride on Vimeo.

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