** Reply to message from "Will Honea" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:13:32 -0700
> The cost of updating
> one of the clients (a small church) to Vista is prohibitive when you factor in
> all the associated programs that will also need updating. Office2000 to
> Office2007 for them is eye-watering!
And the reason they felt they NEEDED to upgrade to MS Vista is because? Is it
because there are people hanging from a building in NY holding an ad for
MS Vista? ;-/ I would think that a $50 hardware firewall/router would be a
far better 'security' upgrade if they feel the need to run Microsoft software.
Or put MS Windows in a virtual machine / sandbox for required apps. And
now, with VirtualBox, they could even run OS/2 in a VM if there's software there
they could use.
The worth thing about this "new OS" is that customers will find it difficult to NOT
get the product on a new computer and that infection will cost extra. At the
very least, they'll have to pay to purchase and install the version/OS they are
currently standardized on. Can you say, 'thank you sir, may I have another'? :-/
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