johnwhelan
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Hi everybody.
In response to John Whellans posting at #52 of this thread, then Chromebooks and Chromebase desktops are similarly equipped to PC laptops and desktops in regard to users with disabilities finding enhanced features for their use incorporated into those devices.
In regard to my own company and others having somewhat “simplistic” requirements and therefore Google Chrome OS is easily found suitable to our needs, I can visualise how that perception can come about. However, all business requirements are different and in my company's circumstances we are what I would class at present as a medium size operation with 26 employees (both full and part-time) based around fourteen workstations in the main open office and four workstations based in individual offices.
The above I would suggest would be pro-typical of many medium size company office setups along with the need for those workstations to share files and work collaboratively on documents. In the foregoing many of those documents are internally and externally security sensitive and therefore not open to view by all members of staff and no one outside the company with the exception of the company's clients on a need to know basis.
Bill
Trouble is with a simplistic set of requirements you eventually hit limits. Exchanging documents with an organisation that employs partially sighted people for example or even one that makes use of Microsoft Visual Basic in Word. You could go for ISO standard documents good heavens you mean Microsoft is one of the few companies whose wordprocessing meets an ISO standard rather than a propitiatory format.
and standards help on the interoperability side as well and I'd prefer not to get into a deep discussion about ISO standards or the work that goes into them having beet part of the process once.
Cheerio John