Wednesday, 21 November 2012

activity 2 - analysisng the 'good old days'


Microsoft word is a great application that can help small businesses, as well as big companies, to help them reduce the amount of paper based systems that they use. It has the basic tools that everyone can use and this application is pretty cheap for what can be accomplished.

An alternative to this would be Google docs. This system is designed to help people upload pictures, videos presentations, etc... To the internet much faster. And as this product is from Google, it can be accessed pretty much anywhere in the world as Google is so popular.

As paper based systems requires paper which you get from trees, you need trees to make the system work. This is overcome by word and Google docs not using paper. This means that in the short run, it is expensive as you have to pay for the application but in the long run it is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much cheaper.  I believe Microsoft word would be better than alternative Google docs.  This is because word does much more and to a better quality. Not saying google docs is not very good, it is but Microsoft is by far the best.

As paper systems rarely exist anymore, the need for typists decreased. As the typist had certain skills, they needed to change what they did and how they did it. This meant that secretaries were born. Secretaries do exactly what typists did, but on computers. This was the change from a typist to a secretary.

This meant that secretaries, administrators and accounts could more easily get a job or this is where these types of jobs came from. As computers were so unused back in the day these people with these skills couldn’t get a job so the increase in computers meant that millions of jobs became available.

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