Other inconveniences came from fundamental differences between Macs and PCs. The servers did a fine job of backing up files but wouldn't allow users to search them, Chway said. We never lost any data due to them. It was just an inconvenience. Widen will combat the problem with consistent, ongoing training and by standardizing its file naming, Chway said.
Fonts can also be an issue in a cross-platform environment, especially in publishing.
Since Macs and PCs handle fonts differently, it's easy for problems to appear when moving graphics files from one platform to the next. Yet Widen won't simplify the client strategy, because of its customer focus. Widen also found Mac clients much easier to prepare for an NT network than PC machines. Windows has to have junk in it for every type of hardware. The final verdict on NT is favorable.