IT History Society Blog

By the time one gets to the interview process itself, there has oft been so many occasions to interact with the interviewee that (s)he is no longer an object of research but almost a collaborator to the research. You might fall under the charm of the modesty of a pioneer who underestimates his/her contributions. Or you might feel aversion against an interviewee who looks down on you as just a silly researcher asking questions about topics (s)he judges you not expert enough to understand. At the very least interacting with the interviewee fakes things up as far as your scientific distancing is concerned. Yet you can deal with this, if with your pride hurt. You will return to the transcript to try analyse and get rid of your undue own input. What is oft forgotten is that interviewees too are affected by interviews. At the very best, you have exploited the interview to collect addresses and information about past friends and colleagues to contact back after a 20 years or so delay. Also, (s)he is likely to have now in mind ideas of other stories long forgotten. Or maybe (s)he is rethinking his/her own role in the story you have just recorded. At the very least you will have been giving feelings of joy for reminiscing at the good old days, and of pain for reminding them of what has been lost since those good old days. Some feeling of guilt often gets awakened too, about things lost or undone. And then YOU somehow feel bad for making an older man or an older lady coming back to past painful days.

Why Study History?

People live in the present. They plan for and worry about the future. History, however, is the study of the past. Given all the demands that press in from living in the present and anticipating what is yet to come, why bother with what has been? Given all the desirable and available branches of knowledge, why insist—as most American educational programs do—on a good bit of history? And why urge many students to study even more history than they are required to?

Any subject of study needs justification: its advocates must explain why it is worth attention. Most widely accepted subjects—and history is certainly one of them—attract some people who simply like the information and modes of thought involved. But audiences less spontaneously drawn to the subject and more doubtful about why to bother need to know what the purpose is.

Historians do not perform heart transplants, improve highway design, or arrest criminals. In a society that quite correctly expects education to serve useful purposes, the functions of history can seem more difficult to define than those of engineering or medicine. History is in fact very useful, actually indispensable, but the products of historical study are less tangible, sometimes less immediate, than those that stem from some other disciplines.

In the past history has been justified for reasons we would no longer accept. For instance, one of the reasons history holds its place in current education is because earlier leaders believed that a knowledge of certain historical facts helped distinguish the educated from the uneducated; the person who could reel off the date of the Norman conquest of England (1066) or the name of the person who came up with the theory of evolution at about the same time that Darwin did (Wallace) was deemed superior—a better candidate for law school or even a business promotion. Knowledge of historical facts has been used as a screening device in many societies, from China to the United States, and the habit is still with us to some extent. Unfortunately, this use can encourage mindless memorization—a real but not very appealing aspect of the discipline.

Sejarah Singkat MS Office

Sejarah panjang perjalanan Microsoft Office hingga saat ini, banyak perubahan dan penambahan fasilitas sejak pertama kali diluncurkan tanggal 30 Agustus 1992. Waktu itu aplikasi perkantoran ini diberi nama Microsoft Office versi 3.0. Pada versi tersebut Microsoft Office menyertakan Microsoft Word sebagai pengolah kata, Microsoft Excel sebagai pengolah angka, Microsoft PowerPoint digunakan sebagai aplikasi presentasi yang handal dan Microsoft Mail digunakan untuk menerima dan mengirim email.

Setelah populer dengan Microsoft Office 3.0, pada tahun 1995-an Microsoft kembali meluncurkan Microsoft Office 95 bersamaan waktu itu Microsoft meluncurkan sistem operasi Microsoft Windows 95. Pada sistem operasi ini Microsoft merombak total Windows versi 3.1 dan Windows 3.11 for Workgroup, perubahan yang cukup signifikan dalam sejarah sistem operais PC saat itu. Sejalan dengan pekembangan sistem operasi Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office sendiri terus berkembang dan semakin mapan dan terus digandrungi serta digunakan oleh sebagian besar masyarakat komputer di dunia, termasuk di Indonesia.

Sampai pada tahun 2000-an Microsoft sudah meluncurkan beberapa versi Microsoft Office dan sampai saat ini masih tetap digunakan sebagai andalan aplikasi perkantoran modern. Beberapa versi dari Microsoft Office yang masih banyak digunakan saat ini antara lain Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP (2002) dan Microsoft Office 2003.

Pada kenyataannya sampai saat ini masih banyak kemampuan Microsoft Office 2003 masih belum tersentuh oleh pemakainya. Namun sejalan dengan perkembangan teknologi dan sistem operasi yang juga terus berkembang, maka diluar dugaan Microsoft kembali telah meluncurkan Microsoft Office 2007 bersamaan dengan Windows Vista.

Dimana Microsoft Office 2007 sekarang sangat membantu semua orang dalam setiap pekerjaan yang harus dikerjakan dengan cepat. dan Microsoft Office 2007 ini sangat berbeda dengan semua Microsoft yang lain dimana semua tool yang tersembunyi dapat tampak oleh mata dan aplikasi yang mendu,kung pun sangat bagus-bagus.