Dropping Open Workbench: Back to Microsoft Project
As much as I hate to admit it, I'm going back to Microsoft Project. I've worked for several weeks to get Open Workbench working the way I like. But there are two very important issues that I couldn't get to work in OW.
The first was I had to double-click each task and assign dependencies and resources through the dialog box. I hated that. In MS Project, all you do is type the name of the resource to assign it. To set a predecessor, you type in the number of the task. As for as I know, I couldn't do that in OW and it was the most frustrating thing about it.
Second, it is just not as user friendly as I would expect from a software program. I really tried to learn it and make it useful for me, but in the end I wasted a lot of time and effort working to make the projects work the way I liked. I guess you do get what you pay for... sometimes.
Honestly, I have to give Microsoft credit for their good usability and ease-of-use principles in their software. While a lot of people disdain them for various things (including myself), some things they do extremely well.
On a side note. I've never seen Microsoft as an INNOVATOR in technology. They've always been the COPY CATS with a good marketing plan. They copied Windows from Apple, copied Java with C#, began copying the iPhone with there phone (whatever the name was), copied Adobe Flex with Silverlight (??). Anyway, if there is one company that has a damn good marketing team, its Microsoft. If there is a company that has damn good innovations, it certainly isn't them.
In my opinion... Of course...
