"Palladium" and TCPA

[David Swarbrick]

I agre.  I think also that many businesses have worked out that MS's new
licensing system requires the answer they always wanted - an excuse not to
upgrade for the forseeable future.

The only thing I would do would be to buy up any additional licences you
might need now for the next five years, then wave goodbye to the MS software
budget.

If it comes to all new hardware being fixed with palladium, the answer may
be also not to upgrade the hardware.

David Swarbrick, www.lawindexpro.co.uk
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> > M$ would be well advised to follow Corel Draw and continue to sell and
> > support earlier versions of their software for the forseeable
> future, back
> > as far as Win 98 and Office 97.
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> Quite so. We bought an XP Pro upgrade for one of our Win 98 machines last
> week, as a toe in the water and to check for any compatibility issues with
> some of the homebrewed software we sell. For that one machine - a
> four page
> report was produced, advising me that if we continued to  install
> XP Iwe may
> have almost UKP1K  of XP-incompatible software and hardware that will need
> to be replaced (all of which was bought in the last two years). And then
> there is the much larger cost in reduced output whilst the use of new
> software is learned . In short for a small business, the cost of
> a complete
> change over to XP is likely to be of the order of KP 10K - and to obtain
> what exactly?
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> No way. It is far cheaper for me to buy a new, basic, desktop box on which
> to do the requisite compatibility testing and to continue using
> the  audio,
> ISDN, fax, scanner, printer  and sundry utility programs which meet our
> current needs very well and which we have no need to change.
>
> IMO, if M$ attempts to force the rate of change to  XP - compatible
> products, it will, for the first time since since its introduction of Win
> 95, offer a serious window of opportunity to the makers of other OS.
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