(sorry if the last post got thru...) Does anyone remember that UMass became the first Microsoft Showcase School in 2005? Yet, it seems kinda odd that we don't see much of a Microsoft presence in the area... I'm always wary of glowing reports issued by companies about their new product. A company can *always* find/pay someone to say very nice things about their new products (btw, did anyone else see the story on how Microsoft got caught paying for someone to maintain their Wikipedia profiles???) I've heard mixed things. I know it takes a boatload of memory (will have to upgrade my desktop in order to install it) and as per usual, its features will work only with other MS features. That's MS for ya! Tish Charles Uchu Strader <sales at gaiahost.coop> wrote: ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. ** You too can help the group ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. It's interesting that the web page says: "All reports were researched and funded by the analyst firms themselves." But the report for Mass. says: "Sponsored by: Microsoft" Good old Microsoft creating lots of IT consulting revenue because Vista will be a complex upgrade for some firms. I wonder if any firms will look at those costs for upgrading and start to think more about options for open source systems? For instance, the report says that for each dollar of revenue Microsoft gets for Vista it will create $18 in revenue for the "ecosystem beyond Microsoft". So that could be taken by firms as it will cost 18 times the purchase price of Vista to deal with upgrades. TCO...total cost of ownership. ~Charles Uchu > _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20070124/df87b65c/attachment-0004.html