The Just Use It System
Wouldn't you like a computer you can just use,
and not have to constantly struggle with virus epidemics, system crashes,
or having malware covertly turn your computer into a zombie spam server?
Overall Technology Inc. Now makes it possible to have the kind of "just use it" computer you've always wanted!
- Turn-key Linux servers and workstations
- Professional remote admin and tech support
www.overalltech.net
The Inspection Network
Expert system assisted home inspection report generating software.
Making advanced artificial intelligence useful in the real world
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Overall Technology originally developed its Linux Desktop Server and Mini-ISP products in order to provide its inspection software customers with a robust and reliable industrial strength alternative to the security risks, exorbitant costs, and legendary unreliability of the third rate proprietary products commonly bundled with mass marketed computers. However, our market research indicates there are also many users who match our target user profile outside of the inspection industry.
Our target user doesn't know anything about his computer - and doesn't want to know anything. He just wants to use his computer as a tool to accomplish the task at hand. Our test users in this project were "Windows" users with little interest in the technical details of their current systems, let alone a burning desire to become intimately involved with the inner workings of a Linux system. Dealing with user names and passwords was pretty much the limit of their computer tech tolerance. In our market testing, we networked our Linux desktop machines with our test user's existing Windows computers so they could easily switch between the two. Once they'd worked with a Linux desktop long enough to "unlearn" some of the twisted "windoze-think" that results from excessive exposure to Microsoft's "intentional incompatibility as marketing strategy", our test users consistently reported finding the Linux interface more intuitive and easier to use. They also consistently preferred the robust reliability and efficient performance of our Linux desktop systems.Our test users also appreciated not having their time and money wasted on/by intrusive and unwanted "features", having to purchase and install a seemingly endless series of "upgrades" to fix bugs in the original product, the extra costs and unnecessary distractions of having to guard against all of the security risks resulting from using slickly marketed but basically flawed products, and the outraged frustration of having their computers crash just when they'd created something they didn't want to lose.Our test users were particularly pleased with the way Overall's remote system administration and tech support allowed them to focus on just using their computers without having to become computer technicians.
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For those who want to use a computer in their work
without working at using their computer
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