This rampant need to turn all computers into "delivery systems" is going to kill the US tech. Eventually most of the world will stomp all over this country. No more innovation, no sir. You might steal some music or 'gasp!' a movie. That cannot be allowed to happen. So they will kill anything that threatens the big corporations that own the government. You nasty little hackers, lurking in the playground shadows!
I am the IT Director at a small college. We purchase Dell mainly. We just purchased 6 new machines through Dell Education. You can only get Windows XP Pro (through the website). We figured we would install Windows 2000 when we got them in. Wrong!! Dell would not even talk with our tech until we used the recovery disks and put XP back on. Why did we need to talk to Dell support you might ask. Well it seems that the drivers we needed we not real available. Windows 2000 has issues with the USB bus controller and several other hardware components. So we will be forced to use XP whether we want it or not. I am not happy about Microsoft making those decisions for this college. That is my job...
Slashdot Mirror
This rampant need to turn all computers into "delivery systems" is going to kill the US tech. Eventually most of the world will stomp all over this country. No more innovation, no sir. You might steal some music or 'gasp!' a movie. That cannot be allowed to happen. So they will kill anything that threatens the big corporations that own the government. You nasty little hackers, lurking in the playground shadows!
I am the IT Director at a small college. We purchase Dell mainly. We just purchased 6 new machines through Dell Education. You can only get Windows XP Pro (through the website). We figured we would install Windows 2000 when we got them in. Wrong!! Dell would not even talk with our tech until we used the recovery disks and put XP back on. Why did we need to talk to Dell support you might ask. Well it seems that the drivers we needed we not real available. Windows 2000 has issues with the USB bus controller and several other hardware components. So we will be forced to use XP whether we want it or not. I am not happy about Microsoft making those decisions for this college. That is my job...