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Old 03-08-2007, 01:00 PM   #46 (permalink)
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I'm thinking why would they want to upgrade anyway? sounds like xp is working fine. seems like a big waste of money to go to vista.
Yep.

The upgrade mania is ridiculous.

There is no reason to upgrade, as least until Vista is the primary OS in the market. XP will be supported for years.

I don't know any major operation that upgrades when a new version is first released.

I would think that the article is really a big snooze.
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I remember a little while ago we made a big purchase of systems that had windows preinstalled (no other way to buy them). of course we had to pay for the licenses, but as soon as we got them, we blew away the os and installed fedora. I bet there were a lot of orders like ours that inflated microsoft's sales, and probably didn't give any credit to the growing popularity of linux.
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of course we had to pay for the licenses, but as soon as we got them, we blew away the os and installed fedora.
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OUCH!! You discarded the single most expensive component in the system. That's a hefty tax. 1 or 2 desktops I can see, but if you're getting 10, 20 systems (or more), you'd have been better off configuring and testing a custom system and image. Once you have a configuration and image tested successfully, order 10, 20, 50 or whatever of everything and slap them together. It takes little time to deploy each system. I mean it's not like the OTS systems come in the door and get placed on the user's desk. They each (usually) have to be re-ghosted and tested too.
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OUCH!! You discarded the single most expensive component in the system. That's a hefty tax. 1 or 2 desktops I can see, but if you're getting 10, 20 systems (or more), you'd have been better off configuring and testing a custom system and image. Once you have a configuration and image tested successfully, order 10, 20, 50 or whatever of everything and slap them together. It takes little time to deploy each system. I mean it's not like the OTS systems come in the door and get placed on the user's desk. They each (usually) have to be re-ghosted and tested too.
we had a great deal on the systems, even taking into account the extra license fees. for us, new systems do get placed at the user's station and we pxe boot them. all we need is the mac address of each system and it's pretty much done.
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