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Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops
snydeq writes "Enterprise licensing for Windows 7 could cause major headaches and add more cost to the Windows 7 migration effort, InfoWorld reports. Under the proposed license, businesses that purchase PCs with Windows 7 pre-installed within six months of the Oct. 23 launch date will be able to downgrade those systems to XP, and later upgrade back to Windows 7 when ready to migrate users. PCs bought after April 22, 2010, however, can only be downgraded to Vista — no help for XP-based organizations, which would be wise to wait 12 to 18 months before adopting Windows 7, so that they can test hardware and software compatibility and ensure their vendors' Windows 7 support meets their needs. XP shops that chose not to install Vista will have to either rush their migration process or spend extra to enroll in Microsoft's Software Assurance program, which allows them to install any OS version — for about $90 per year per PC."
Well, we do have one UNIX box, so I'll have to adjust my pony tail as I think up a response to your quip.
Oh, wait, no, I actually have short hair.
Maybe you need to realize that computers are a commodity and we don't need to overpay for an OS that is at times 1/3 the total price.
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Replaced their Office interface with that goddawful ever changing ribbon which trolls, Microsoft fanbois and astroturfers/shills continue to defend despite it completely ruining productivity, and now they're incorporating it into every damn program they can
FTFY
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Forget Windows forever. Next time your office needs new computers, migrate to Mac.
How ya like dat?
All of this is irrelevant.
Anyone who manages more than a handful of desktops and isn't using volume licenses with software assurance contracts, but is instead using OEM or retail box licenses in their company is a moron and should be fired.
None of this effects any competently administered IT desktop support departments.
Who cares! whine complain "act sympathetic for BIG businesses" who don't want to upgrade. It is 2009, If you had a business writing software, I think/know it would become difficult to support something you wrote 7 years ago. IMO Windows 7 is a redeemer for certain. As I write this from my Macbook!