[ClearCase_guy]

I a bit older than you. I consider myself pretty tech savvy. I'm an engineer working in an IT/network environment. I can generally work out solutions to things and a lot of people come to me and ask me to explain how a piece of SW works, or how to hook up a piece of HW.

Lately, though, I have been totally stumped by cell phones, apps and SW applications. Either I've started to go into decline, or the high tech industry has decided that user friendliness is not so important.

[ConservativeMind]

I am with you on that. For instance, on Windows 8: Why does someone need to think differently about “apps” versus “applications?”

Microsoft made 8 ONLY to unify programmers into a paradigm that would make phone applications a simple recompile. However laudable this must have seemed, they turned off every single friend and family member, and left me apoplectic when sitting in front of a neighbor's computer.

This is not good, when I have extensive wide-area network and computer knowledge from my experience in the computer industry since 1981.

[wally_bert]

Glad I’m not the only one in technology who runs into these things.