The pen is mightier than the sword...unless you're writing in cursive and since no one can read it the sword is mightier (and once Civilization tanks the sword is still mightier).
I work for a large international engineering corporation, we still use windows 2000. We were supposed to upgrade to XP this Fall, but now it's sometime next year. Why? Because XP was/is breaking a bunch of our applications. Maybe some software development houses want Vista, but who else? I almost wonder if we could sue M$ for phasing out support of older OS's and therefore causing companies to be required to upgrade to the more current OS in order to maintain support(blah blah Anti-trust). This is a huge impact to corporations: the cost of new OS's, the cost of new machines, the cost of getting our programs running on these new OS's, learning curves for personnel, potential document loss due to the transition, etc. These costs add up quickly and could be quite enormous!
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The pen is mightier than the sword...unless you're writing in cursive and since no one can read it the sword is mightier (and once Civilization tanks the sword is still mightier).
I work for a large international engineering corporation, we still use windows 2000. We were supposed to upgrade to XP this Fall, but now it's sometime next year. Why? Because XP was/is breaking a bunch of our applications. Maybe some software development houses want Vista, but who else? I almost wonder if we could sue M$ for phasing out support of older OS's and therefore causing companies to be required to upgrade to the more current OS in order to maintain support(blah blah Anti-trust). This is a huge impact to corporations: the cost of new OS's, the cost of new machines, the cost of getting our programs running on these new OS's, learning curves for personnel, potential document loss due to the transition, etc. These costs add up quickly and could be quite enormous!