At Georgia College the family nurse practitioner (FNP) and doctor of nursing practice (DNP) students had immersion experiences to prepare them for graduate work. Several of the students purchased new laptops with the Windows 8 operating system (OS) for school. My first impression with Microsoft innovations was not good. With Windows 8 OS it felt Microsoft and Bing had hijacked the computer. I empathized with the students as they attempted to navigate to the different applications.
Two students purchased laptops with Microsoft Word starter. They said that they were misled by the computer sales staff believing that Word Starter would meet all of their word processing requirements. Word Starter is a "teaser" app. It will allow the user to do basic word processing. I was demonstrating the use of EndNote personal reference manager with the new graduate students. Our university has a site license for EndNote that is subsidized with the student technology fee. EndNote will not load into Word Starter. Both the students and I learned from the frustrating experiences with the Microsoft innovations.
Two students purchased laptops with Microsoft Word starter. They said that they were misled by the computer sales staff believing that Word Starter would meet all of their word processing requirements. Word Starter is a "teaser" app. It will allow the user to do basic word processing. I was demonstrating the use of EndNote personal reference manager with the new graduate students. Our university has a site license for EndNote that is subsidized with the student technology fee. EndNote will not load into Word Starter. Both the students and I learned from the frustrating experiences with the Microsoft innovations.
