{"id":296,"date":"2010-10-24T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T21:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2010\/10\/24\/questions-do-i-get-questions\/"},"modified":"2010-10-24T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T21:06:36","slug":"questions-do-i-get-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2010\/10\/24\/questions-do-i-get-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions? Do I get questions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In short yes I do. I have gotten used to being asked all sorts of questions. Apparently people expect me to know about everything even remotely related to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMy printer doesn\u2019t talk to my new computer?\u201d <\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen is such and such a product coming out?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat can you say about this court case Microsoft is in?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSuch and such product doesn\u2019t want to install, can you tell me why?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Answers? Yeah, sometimes I have answers. People don\u2019t like all of them though. For example, the printer not talking to your computer is probably because you don\u2019t have an updated driver and that is the printer companies responsibility not Microsoft\u2019s. It\u2019s amazing how often I get asked about hardware BTW. Not the rare piece of hardware that Microsoft actually sells under their own name but some object that is advertised as working with Windows. <\/p>\n<p>And the occasional Apple question. Why? No idea. I guess because it is a computer.<\/p>\n<p>For products, Microsoft comes out with all sorts of products all the time. I don\u2019t work with all of them. I\u2019m not a gamer and I don\u2019t work in the game group so I have no idea (or much interest most of the time) when new editions of games are coming out. And if I knew but it hasn\u2019t been announced publically I can\u2019t (will not) tell you any way. Chances are that if the product\/game\/what ever is important to you than you already know as much about the release date as I do. And if I know more?&#160; Sorry, but I really like my job and announcing product release dates is way above my pay grade.<\/p>\n<p>Court case? My understanding with the lawyers is that I don\u2019t comment on legal issues and they don\u2019t write code. We\u2019re all better off that way. Oh you want my personal opinion? Sorry, I don\u2019t know you well enough to share that. And you know, I really do like my job.<\/p>\n<p>Few people ever have enough information for me to diagnose an install problem. I need to know every other piece of software they have installed, every version, every error message they have seen and even then there is a great chance that the product is outside my area of expertise.&#160; Sigh! Though I do try when I can.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t mind the questions BTW.&#160; I get more frustrated with myself when I can\u2019t help. But I really like it when I can help. So as long as people ask I will do my best to answer. But I don\u2019t know everything.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterHeaderFooter\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short yes I do. I have gotten used to being asked all sorts of questions. Apparently people expect me to know about everything even remotely related to Microsoft. \u201cMy printer doesn\u2019t talk to my new computer?\u201d \u201cWhen is such and such a product coming out?\u201d \u201cWhat can you say about this court case Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}