>I can understand why a home user might not want to upgrade, but a business still running Win 9x is insane. I thought we threw out all those Wyse terminals years ago and now here comes round two. Just when the entire world thought the business desktop market was going to vanish from the clutches of MS, here comes another wave of boot to LAN systems without a real need for a local desktop. Our future workstation replacements will take the thin approach. Our users, support staff, and management all adapted quickly and thats the most important part. Terminal services is less than perfect, but it makes a good deal of sense in SOME situations. It’s not just MS who wants you to upgrade your OS, it’s Dell, Compaq/HP, and others….FWIW: They all can go thru a very long sales presentation, without ever uttering “open source” as an option. Much of which tends to unravel a well polished sales presentation. It’s a decent way to extend the life of the network while preserving the existing infrastucture. TS also reduces a good deal of the security concerns with 9x systems. It steals their hopes of convincing a shop to upgrade basic workstations simply due to age, and performance. Can you imagine how much OEM’s like Dell and Compaq/HP hate Terminal Services?(apart from selling a high-end server) However,in this case it’s not just MS involved.
You have a good idea, and others have had the same thought.
I agree with you, but I would also look for some creative licensing changes from MS. It isn’t for me that the vast majority of the users I support. rant over/ Honestly, so MS says OpenOffice only has as many features as Office 97 as if thats a handicap. I also hate how everthing gets moved around in every new version of Office, why? To f*ck with us and see if we’re paying attention? I support lots of users who use versions of Office ranging from 97 to 2003 and often the user themselves have no idea what version their running, having to walk them through something and they tell me “sure, 20003, thats what I have” when its really 2000 is a massive pain. A 1 ghz machine? Now its sluggish? That can’t be right. We just upgraded to Office 2003, since many users are now using that, and – one a not that old 1 ghz machine!!! – everythings freaking slower then Office XP. I /hate/ those darned MS commercials, their just lame! People acting like they just got handed a million bucks because “you got the new microsoft office!” The vast majority of the features of MS Office I have zero use for, and I use it every day at work.
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