On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:42:13AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:39:05 +0100 >begin Zoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > >> At 12:09 13/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: >> >Windows NT and Windows 98 are no longer preinstalled on PC's. Downgrade >> >Rights provide companies that are not currently able to migrate to a >> >more current operating system the ability to use the company's >> >preferred OS until there is a more efficient time to migrate. When the >> >company is ready to migrate to Windows XP Pro, there are no additional >> >costs or licensing requirements.
This is proving to be a major problem for companies who have contracts with school systems requiring multi-year support, and where there are strict budget restraints. Another problem is that much of the ``educational'' software doesn't run on XP in any case. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``...I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.'' -- Nick Petreley _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
