** Reply to message from "Todd Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:10:42 -0500
> My company has (what I thought was) an interesting strategy re: this. > The majority of the workforce uses Windows XP, but new computers we > buy (from Gateway cum MPC) come with Vista installed. So, the way the > license person figures it, we keep track of each Vista license (by the > receipt for the computer) and then if we ever downgrade to Vista we > don't have to buy a site license. We've already paid. > so the company is paying for extra Windows XP licenses to replace the Vista license which came preloaded? And I wonder why Microsoft does not want to keep XP around when they're getting paid twice? > My company can afford license compliance... if they really are paying twice, I'm sure your competition likes that you're spending more money on IT than needs to be paid. ie, the money is not free and waste still is bad for a company unless they have a monopoly position or close to it. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
