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by LanceGary
Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:52 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Why conspiracy theories about software companies develop?
Replies: 1
Views: 3890

Why conspiracy theories about software companies develop?

It seems to me that the research below throws some light on why users, who may be trying to "control" some software to accomplish a task, and not succeeding in their efforts, may develop deep suspicions about the software company that wrote the code. Anyway, somthing to think about. Lance ...
by LanceGary
Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:07 am
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Accuracy of stats functions
Replies: 0
Views: 9058

Accuracy of stats functions

MS Excel has again come under attack from statisticians for the poor performance of its statistics functions. See:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.stat ... 9a0d91139d#

I don't know how Planmaker fares in this regard.

Lance
by LanceGary
Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:54 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: How to treat your customers
Replies: 1
Views: 4570

How to treat your customers

Readers might be interested in a discussion of how MS has treated Office 2003 customers when their software is (automatically) updated:

http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?a=657

Lance

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