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How IT Systems Are Structured

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As you might have guessed from the first part of this book, IT support is a mixture of detective work, diplomacy, technical prowess, and sifting through masses of data on a regular basis. Well what if I told you that the IT support you provide can also be affected, or problems created by the natural or built environments in which we live and work?

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    It used to be said that Windows versions were like classic Star Trek movies, with each other one being terrible. The common offenders often being cited as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Similarly, Windows Vista and Windows 8 are almost universally derided.

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Halsey, M. (2019). How IT Systems Are Structured. In: The IT Support Handbook. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5133-1_7

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