The funny thing, I personally would pay the $500 for an IPod even if Microsoft gave me one of theirs. We were audited (I'm a Sr. IS Tech at the company I work for) 2 years ago, totally funny...we had more licenses than necessary. However, to find that out it took hundreds of man hours finding all the paperwork (which all were submitted to them, either electronically through their MOLP's electronics, big business licensing, or by mail. Yet, we had to run around and prove to them that we weren't lying.) I can't stand them at all!
The funny thing, I personally would pay the $500 for an IPod even if Microsoft gave me one of theirs. We were audited (I'm a Sr. IS Tech at the company I work for) 2 years ago, totally funny...we had more licenses than necessary. However, to find that out it took hundreds of man hours finding all the paperwork (which all were submitted to them, either electronically through their MOLP's electronics, big business licensing, or by mail. Yet, we had to run around and prove to them that we weren't lying.) I can't stand them at all!
Yeah, this territory is too new for microsoft not to find a way to screw it up.
The real question is...how many service packs would it take to get the OS on a microsoft device to be "top notch?"