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Old 01-25-2015, 02:53 PM   #117
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Even the criticism about having to relearn things is partially a matter of how you approach computers. If you learn the basis of how applications work, most skills are transferable. If you learn an application, you're going to be relearning those skills for each new application and even major updates. (To give you an idea of what I mean, I had very few issues with Windows 8 or Office 2007 because it was a new metaphor for the same old stuff. A lot of people did have issues with the interface changes because their understanding of the software was as a collection of tasks that were performed in a particular way.)
Some people are task oriented and others are tool oriented. The first will do the task with whatever suitable tool is available. The second are lost without a specific tool.
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