techrealm - 9:27 pm on Apr 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

Having unix, mac and windows boxes to feed I found various costs to implement vista far exceed the benefits and have not yet suited the needs of the users. It's prettier if you have the ram and processors but if you have older software your out of luck. If you a student in school with one computer making reports, and it was prepacked together then its fine.

But to try and force a complete hardware upgrade across the board when my non computer using bosses see everything is physically working fine and all the numbers are up... Good luck.

When trying to implement the latest trends in software I have typically found that most small business do not need anything truly more functional wordpad to do their letters and forms. And with the free versions of document editors out there - I have been able to generate substantial ROI and savings on simple things like PDF generation from the application that printed the page.

I cannot justify the drive, processor, training timeouts and ram and the many other software costs for the features the OS and "updated software" claim to provide when what the users actually need is a business software system to tie all these bits together.

Computer OS's are just like hammers, there is one for every type of job you need to do (if not you make one). Some do more than others but there is always a need for more than one hammer.