Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Nightfox
From : Moondog
Date : Fri May 20 2022 02:02:00

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Nightfox to Moondog on Thu May 19 2022 09:55 am

 >   Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
 >   By: Moondog to MRO on Wed May 18 2022 09:38 pm
 > 
 >  Mo> When a pc was treated like an remote island, you need all the resources
 >  Mo> be onhand. A terminals' apps and outside communications came in the for
 >  Mo> of a big box in the basement, and allowed others to leave internal mail
 >  Mo> send ort broadcast messages to the all the users or just one user. User
 >  Mo> were locked down from using external devices that could introduce a vir
 > 
 >  Mo> Chromebooks and Android desktops are great if you have the bandwidth.
 >  Mo> Again, apps are updated and managed from the source. Cloud storage allo
 >  Mo> for you to damage your device and not worry about lost data.
 > 
 > Aside from needing enough bandwidth, one thing with Chromebooks & similar th
 > y to do what I want to do.
 > 
 > Nightfox
 > 
That is why so much effort is put into hardening business networks.  Several
schools have moved to Chromebooks, and I know of one major appliance
manufacturer that dumped MS Office in favor of Google apps.  That was a bold
move, mainly because of users being more familair with Office all these years
rather than bandwidth.


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