Kent West wrote:
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> There are a host of other reasons to dislike Windows, such as
> instability, and another of my pet peeves, file incompatibility. When Win
> 3.1 came out, offices learned to use Schedule+. Then Windows95 came out
> with a new version of Schedule+. Of course, one person in the office
> upgraded, and all of a sudden no one could access his schedule anymore. So
> the boss declared that everyone would upgrade to Windows95. Uh oh, now
> they need more drive space and more RAM. Oops, even with that, the
> machines are still too slow. New machines for everyone. (See the $'s
> flying by?) Then the new machines came with Word 5. But some people don't
> want to give up their WordPerfect. "Tough," says the boss. "You have to
> use Word." Then someone upgrades to Office95. Uh oh, file incompatibility
> again. "Okay, everyone upgrade to Office 95. Oh, and I like this new
> Exchange client, Outlook, so we need to upgrade everyone to it also. Oh,
> it requires an Exchange Server? No problem, we can spend the $300 so
> everyone can still share calendars (which we used to do for free). Oh, we
> need a server machine to run the Exchange Server on (ka-ching, that'll be
> $2000). And we need an NT Server license (ka-ching, $500). And we need
> client licenses so our PCs can attach to the NT Server (ka-ching, $80).
> And we need client licenses so our PCs can attach to the Exchange Server
> (ka-ching, $50). And we need a server administrator and a database
> administrator to make it work (ka-ching ka-ching, $35000/year). There, now
> we're all happy." Then the NT server needs to be rebooted 3 times a week.
> Then comes Office97. Uh oh, file incompatibility. "Okay, everyone, upgrade
> to Office97. (ka-ching, ka-ching)" Then comes the service packs for
> Office97. Uh oh, file incompatibility. "Okay, everyone, upgrade to Service
> Pac... what? Microsoft has recalled the Service Pack? Oh, they've released
> a fixed Service Pack, but they've called it by the same name?! Oh, well,
> at least we know we're getting out money's worth."
>
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Good Lord, Kent, this sounds *painfull*. I feel for ya, I really do.
:-)
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Ed C.
