Techie

I talked to my brother in law for the "Interview a Techie" project. He is currently employed at NML in Milaukee. My wife also works at NML as a systems analysist but she does not consider herself a techie. I asked Jason about the opperating system that they use. He explained that they recently changed over to Windows 7 from XP. He explained that for a large corporation, it is not viable to be up with the latest trends so they skipped right past Vista. They have 5000 employees downtown and service 15,000 throughout the country. For them, it is a huge labor process to upgrade. It is also a huge labor process to keep out hackers and remove bugs from the system. Since Windows is an accepterd platform throughout the world, it works well. Although there are some MACs in the company, they are used in the advertising department and mainly used for creative services.