Pegasus Capital Gold

Just had the Payroll programme upgraded, what a pain. As the current computer it's hosted on was going to be removed we've had it installed on a different computer running Vista rather than XP.

First off it wants to install to the root by default, then it wants to reboot - welcome to the 20th Century you're not installing any system changes just use the frakking inbuilt tools to stop and start services and reload registry entries don't be so frakking lazy.

Then we needed to reload the company data, so the installer creates a temp company as a placeholder and goes to restore it; failure. So he creates a second company then complains he can't find the data. Um no by default the first company backups up to 0001data.zip and the second company to 0002data.zip so it's looking for the wrong file.

He gets snippy when I point this out, and I take over. We now have the system running. Oh look they've changed the background to a Pegasus logo, but as this is running on a wide-screen monitor the left-hand edge is the same grey as before. Oh yeah and the password input is still a non-modal dialogue box that you can't switch to if something else decides to pop-up over the top of it.

Yeesh I mean what is it with these financial programmes? It's the same deal with accounting software; it's as if they're still trying to run on Windows 3.11.