Thank you for your reply. As you can see by my ranking, I am very new to posting; not just in this forum, but any. It took me a long time to understand how all this "billboars/forums" stuff works. It's a beautiful thing. Also, I am very happy to be apart of a comunity where the sharing of knowledge for now other reward than that which is recieived in the offering itself is encouraged.
Anyway, your points are very well taken. I hadn't thought much about the problems with learning and relearning the product that some version changes cause. I'll have to think about that one a bit longer.
But something in what you wrote makes me wonder if I have made myself exactly clear with the examples I used. That may be indicative of exactly what I am talking about. And/or, I am probably not the clearest writier who will post here. So if I may bend your a ear a bit more, I would like to clarify my position a bit.
As I said, I agree with you about the challenges that a dynamic product generates, but I feel that there is a great deal of knowledge to pass on and training that can be given on basic and advanced tasks, features, operations and tips relating to the general topic of working with digital media, and working with digitial media in preperation for use with Media Center, as well as how to best use the many operations and features of MC provides that don't change much or at all. Media server, for example. There is not a lot of, forgive me for saying, helpful information in the help file. What are the best ways to use it in a multi PC environment where users need different permissions. I am not relating here the questions I have regarding this one basic issue of what Media Server can and can not do, what it does best, and what would be the best way to acheive my particular goal. Now perhaps I have a slanted view of the customer base. If so, then, my idea can be used to expand the market it currently serves to a whole new demographic. And perhaps this whole idea is either beyhond the capabilities of MC as acompany due to personel resources and/or budgetary constraints or that the idea is just beyond the scope of the companies stratagy. In either case, it is also very probable that I have just slid way over the "no, you don't sound too much like an idiot geek...NOT" ledge and that the no one else cares about most of the static type things I think could be taught. I mean, I bet there are a great deal of people who don't even know about the ways they could use MC and so haven't even wondered how to do some of the things I have tried with varing levels of success to make work with MC. Let me wrap this up (finally) by pointing out that I consider myself a power user with computes and software. I am more technical than most sales guys out there and very close, generally speaking, to a sales engineer. I have been using MC10 for around a year (I think) and MC11 for a couple months. I have mostly figured out most things, but as is obvious, not all things all the way. Yet, there are a lot of topics, questions, and advice that are floating around Interact Forum that further illustrate to me that there is so much in the universe of digital media that I need to know, would like to know and if and how MC can do now, will do later, and what the suggested work arounds are. And while this forum is great, I would like to understand why exactly, as I have often read, there is so much contention over the issue of MP3 vs. WMA. It seems to me that aside from storage considerations, compatablity issues, and I think possibly tagging issues, a person should just use which ever one works for them, and sounds good or the best to them. But there must be a great deal more to consider based on the sustained level of energy this conversation generates. This is another example of information I think would stay relatively static and could be brought up for clarification in one of these mentoring/netmeeting type things I am advocating. If nothing else, it would stop me from typing so much here. LOL! Sorry for being long winded and probably somewhat unclear. I really appreciate your time on this with me.
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BTW - Generally speaking, what is the eddicate here?