A long time ago (I cannot find it anymore, may have been deleted) I read a “tale from tech support” where a user called tech support and complained “my operating system is missing”. Retelling from memory:
Tech support person tried to walk the user through various steps until the user said “ok, let me just close these documents…”
“Wait, you have open documents? Your operating system is not missing.”
“What? No, it is.”
“If your operating system were missing, you wouldn’t be able to do anything with your computer, you wouldn’t have open documents. If you can do that, you definitely have some operating system. What version of Windows is the computer running?”
“Windows 7.”
“There you have it, that’s your operating system.”
Oh, that’s a good one.
I’m very far from being tech savvy myself, so I gradually tried to remind myself people can not care enough about this stuff to learn even some basic terminology or have other, more urgent concerns. A lot of the service industry depends on this kind of unfamiliarity, I guess.
I’ve literally had to explain the existence of other operating systems than Windows to people. They had never heard of Linux.
Have you ever heard something like saying “His Windows is Linux”?
An upgrade to having never heard of Linux but also a downgrade somehow
A long time ago (I cannot find it anymore, may have been deleted) I read a “tale from tech support” where a user called tech support and complained “my operating system is missing”. Retelling from memory:
Tech support person tried to walk the user through various steps until the user said “ok, let me just close these documents…”
“Wait, you have open documents? Your operating system is not missing.”
“What? No, it is.”
“If your operating system were missing, you wouldn’t be able to do anything with your computer, you wouldn’t have open documents. If you can do that, you definitely have some operating system. What version of Windows is the computer running?”
“Windows 7.”
“There you have it, that’s your operating system.”
“That’s Windows, not operating system.”
Oh, that’s a good one. I’m very far from being tech savvy myself, so I gradually tried to remind myself people can not care enough about this stuff to learn even some basic terminology or have other, more urgent concerns. A lot of the service industry depends on this kind of unfamiliarity, I guess.
I’ve heard “what is Windows?” from a Windows user.
…to be fair, it’s not like the name is plastered all over one’s experience with their PC most of the time, so how would they know?