Why users get gray
- TAGS:icons, monitor
- IT TOPICS:Hardware, Macs & PCs, Management
It's a few years back, and this IT pilot fish working for a school district is dispatched to a high school, where the principal's monitor has lost its color.
"After a colleague and I brought in and set up her new monitor, the principal stopped us to ask whether she would still have the same icons on the new monitor as she did on the old," says fish.
"Thinking she was joking, I said yes, once we use a razor and scrape them off the old monitor.
"It was the sudden look on her face that told me she was not kidding.
"As the moment of silence stretched into what seemed like years, my colleague entered the room to say it was lunchtime, which I took as an exit excuse."
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