* Posts by Jim Macdonald

3 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Feb 2009

Windows 7 — It’s like Vista, only less annoying

Jim Macdonald

64bit?

So if you get the 64bit version of Windows 7, do you get the 64bit version of XP?

UK IT should 'fire men first', says Kate Craig-Wood

Jim Macdonald
Stop

mmm....

Ok, I'm looking around our IT dept, and out of 40 staff, there's only one woman (a web designer). So I don't think the "sack the men first" policy is going to have much effect around here.

We hardly ever get a female candidate to interview for the IT dept, and even when they do, very few can pass the technical portion of the interview. It's not discrimination - they're just aren't that many women genuinely interested in a geeky job. So statistically, IT is always going to have less women than blokes.

Notably, The 5 previous women that have worked in our department over the years, have all got bored after 1-2 years and taken up other careers or became full time mums. So even then it seems like it could have been a mistake from their perspective.

Microsoft SKUs Windows 7 clarity

Jim Macdonald

hmm

Far too confusing...

Actually it isn't, I'll just be sticking with XP thanks.