From: "Geo." 

"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> I think this has long been the consensus among professionals, but how
> do you sell it to the consumer and feed the revenue beast?

You either save them money or offer them new features, if you go the route
of saving them money then that can be accomplished with more efficient
versions so people can work faster.

What would you pay for W2K refresh that made W2K run 25% faster? Laptop
users might really go for that.
Remember the upgrade from 3.5 to 3.51? They made it faster, reduced the
memory footprint, and added disk compression capabilities, things that
allowed us to keep our hardware longer and so we saved money on hardware by
spending money on software updates.

Idea 2, ask the users what they would like to see in the way of
improvements to W2K. I don't mean ask big corp IS departments what they
want, I mean ask joe user what would allow him to work more efficiently,
what annoyances he hates, etc.

Hey here's a thought, what would you pay for a version of XP sans
activation and copy protection and DRM and with the old manual recovery
options added back in? You want to see a rash of people upgrading, removing
stuff instead of adding it might just do it.

How about a version of W2K that boots and runs from CD like Knoppix? Use a
USB ram drive for swap or whatever it needs to store between boots. Imagine
a company full of computers where hard drive failures are not an issue and
where users have no choice but to store things on the servers where they
can actually be backed up..

How about a version of server that boots to the command line where the GUI
is optional and can be started and ended?

Geo. 

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