From: "John Beamish" 

You can be so delightfully droll at times!

I suspect that there are other factors at play.  I have never seen one of
the corp licenses that MS signs with large organizations but I expect that
there is some factor that encourages both upgrades and homogeneous
environments.

But as for the rest of your comment ... the NT4 example is somewhat
specious since, as you pointed out elsewhere, it suffers from at least one
serious exploit that won't be patched.

Another area in which I have no experience:  if you buy new hardware, how
likely is it that you'll get a driver that provides anything other than a
vanilla set of functionality for the new device?

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:23:02 -0400, Geo.  wrote:

> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.trkhzuamm6tn4t{at}dellblack.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>
>> As for businesses, you are correct for the short term.  Eventually,
>> though, licenses for XP (as a simple example) won't be available (from
>> their supplier or from their own stock of pre-bought licences).  At
>> that point they have to choose whether to support an environment of XP
>> and Vista or just Vista.  (OK, there are other possiblities and
>> combinations but I am a bear of little brain).  That was all I was
>> trying to say.
>
> I get that but you can still buy NT4pro so obviously that time isn't
> here yet for XP so why are 30% of businesses surveyed saying they plan
> to upgrade? I don't get it.
>
> I'll tell you a guess though, I would imagine that 30% of the businesses
> have IT managers who weren't around in the 1980's and early 90's so they
> got their experience just prior or post to Y2K when everyone was
> upgrading everything in fear of the Y2K bug. If true then the upgrade
> treadmill is all they have ever known and that's the reason it's
> continuing.
>
> Y2K was a fantastic training aid for the software industry..
>
> Geo.

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