Microsoft is a pitiful also-ran in mobile computing, and boneheaded moves like this will only put them further back in the race.
I know kinda offtopic but Microsoft's WinCE 3.0 also known as the Pocket PC will soon pull ahead of Palm OS due to Palm Inc. falling behind in offerings in mobile devices as well as the hardware offered in current gen Pocket PC devices.
You HAVE got to be kidding
Its taken me a year + get rid of the damn Deskpros out of my company. I HATE those things.
The boot up diagnostic partition on the hard drive? What is that?
One P2 266 deskpro I saw had the Slot 1 CPU sitting to the side..
How many engineers did Compaq pay to make that stupid idea work?
I dunno if I'll get modded down for this but the truth hurts.
PS: Too bad they killed DEC (I used to work there in Atlanta when Compaq brought them out)
Users should not be allowed to install whatever they feel like they want to install without permission. I am at a tech company that is trying really hard to standardize on a platofrm and one type of machine. Do any of you realize what a huge pain it is when someone either has a server running on the network that interfers with other network operations? For example I had a user set up Win 2000 adv server as a desktop operating system, the DHCP server was active. This caused massive headaches and very angry executives. Who got in trouble for this? The user ? NO , IT Client Services did!
I can name tons more experiences that I Am sure you have all faced if you are in IT like this. Please, user community just ASK 99% of the time it will be ok we just want to make sure everything will run ok and nothing critical will be interfered with. However, IT is my job dont think you know more than me and even if you you dont have a place to do what you want. I dont tell accountants how to do their jobs, I dont tell programmers how to write programs. I am there to help you so please have the consideration to please ask us beofre thinking your workstation/PC belongs to you, it doesnt..I am responsible for it.
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You HAVE got to be kidding Its taken me a year + get rid of the damn Deskpros out of my company. I HATE those things. The boot up diagnostic partition on the hard drive? What is that? One P2 266 deskpro I saw had the Slot 1 CPU sitting to the side.. How many engineers did Compaq pay to make that stupid idea work? I dunno if I'll get modded down for this but the truth hurts. PS: Too bad they killed DEC (I used to work there in Atlanta when Compaq brought them out)
Users should not be allowed to install whatever they feel like they want to install without permission. I am at a tech company that is trying really hard to standardize on a platofrm and one type of machine. Do any of you realize what a huge pain it is when someone either has a server running on the network that interfers with other network operations? For example I had a user set up Win 2000 adv server as a desktop operating system, the DHCP server was active. This caused massive headaches and very angry executives. Who got in trouble for this? The user ? NO , IT Client Services did! I can name tons more experiences that I Am sure you have all faced if you are in IT like this. Please, user community just ASK 99% of the time it will be ok we just want to make sure everything will run ok and nothing critical will be interfered with. However, IT is my job dont think you know more than me and even if you you dont have a place to do what you want. I dont tell accountants how to do their jobs, I dont tell programmers how to write programs. I am there to help you so please have the consideration to please ask us beofre thinking your workstation/PC belongs to you, it doesnt ..I am responsible for it.