{"id":2507,"date":"2011-04-13T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2011-04-15T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T15:35:17","slug":"justifying-a-windowsoffice-update-those-little-things-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/04\/justifying-a-windowsoffice-update-those-little-things-add-up.htm","title":{"rendered":"Justifying a Windows\/Office update &#8211; those &#8220;little things&#8221; add up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s often hard to justify a Windows or Office upgrade, but I think I might just have found a way to identify some of the advantages &#8211; try going back to an older version.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/03\/rambling-thoughts-windows-7-service-pack-1-full-drive-encryption-mounting-virtual-hard-disks-and-a-pc-rebuild.htm\">my company-supplied notebook was rebuilt onto the corporate standard build<\/a>. I realised that it&#8217;s been about 4 or 5 years since I was last in that situation, as I&#8217;ve always been in a position to be trialling new versions of Windows and Office but these days my role is largely non-technical (so I have no real justification to be different to anyone else) and my team actually sits within the IT department (so I guess I should be setting an example!). I do have local administration rights on the machine, and I did install some software that I need for my role, but which is officially unsupported (examples would be TweetDeck, Nokia PC Suite and the drivers for my company-supplied HP OfficeJet printer). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/03\/solving-the-mystery-of-my-drowsy-pc.htm\">I also tweaked some power settings<\/a> and turned off the corporate screen saver (thereby keeping my green credentials intact by balancing the lack of automatic shutdown with the lack of increased processor\/fan activity to run a screensaver) but I&#8217;ve been trying to stick to the company build where possible\/practical. That means I&#8217;m back to Office 2007 (with Visio 2003) although I am at least on a Windows 7 (x64) build in order that I can use all 4GB of RAM in my notebook.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that it&#8217;s been driving me insane. I had a similar experience when I went back to XP for a couple of days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/did-spinrite-actually-save-my-data.htm\">a hard drive failure a couple of years ago<\/a> but I&#8217;ve really missed some of the newer functionality &#8211; particularly in Outlook 2010:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve lost my Quick Steps (I use them for marking an e-mail as read and moving to my archive folder in one action, or for sending a team e-mail).<\/li>\n<li>Conversation view is different (I can&#8217;t tell you how, but I&#8217;m missing some new e-mails as a result).<\/li>\n<li>When I receive a meeting request, I don&#8217;t see my other appointments for that day in the request.<\/li>\n<li>[Update 15 April 2011: Access to multiple Exchange accounts from one Outlook instance.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just examples off the top of my head &#8211; I should have noted each feature I&#8217;ve missed in recent weeks but I didn&#8217;t (maybe I&#8217;ll come back and edit the post later) but, for a knowledge worker like me, they are significant: a few minutes extra in Outlook to triage email 7-8 times a day, represents half an hour of lost productivity &#8211; <em>every day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;none of this is likely to convince a company to invest in an upgrade, even if they have the software (software costs are generally quite insignificant in relation to resource costs), but it&#8217;s all part of the business case &#8211; employee productivity is never easy to measure, but the little things do add up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now running Internet Explorer 9 (I need to test certain websites on the latest browser version), although I&#8217;m ready to revert to 8 if there are issues with any of the business applications I need to use, and my PC is fully patched including the latest service pack. I am resisting the temptation to install my own (licensed) copy of Office 2010 though&#8230; at least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s often hard to justify a Windows or Office upgrade, but I think I might just have found a way to identify some of the advantages &#8211; try going back to an older version. A few weeks ago, my company-supplied notebook was rebuilt onto the corporate standard build. 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