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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (91542)	11/1/1999 5:23:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ref <You can't let the engineers like Engels and the other super techies design these things. They think things like anyPOINT is user friendly. No way. I don't want to have to read a manual. I just want to plug a device into my PC or vice versa - nothing more. > You are right that installing and tranfering through a network is too painful even for someone who is reasonably technically literate like myself. Engineers make the typical assumption that "If it is obvious to me, it will be obvious to everyone else". I do not have the patience to read through a manual, and I find most software and hardware products to be non-intutive, and poorly designed. Another problem is that you cannot move a program from one computer to another by a simple copy of the directory. You need to hand copy the Registry Entries as a minimum, which is not obvious to most users. Then the DLL and other files need to be copied.It is a mess because it is not clear where the DLL's are located. The Windows platform makes the transfer job tricky for a non-techie. The idea of a 'hardware plug to transfer the hard disk' is cute. But it will have no impact for several years, because it does not address the problem of upgrading from the several hundred million legacy computers. So a software cum hardware product which can use existing hardware on legacy machines like the Parallel Port/ USB, makes more sense. You are right that the present network is not OK for the Consumer PC arena. Maybe some hardware/software vendor will rise to the challenge and provide a product to make the task of Computer upgrading less painful.