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Re: Rex Ballard: it costs $10,000 per employee to upgrade MS Office versions

On Jul 24, 10:14 am, OK <o...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:15:24 -0400, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Typical Rex bullcrap, yet no cola regs have the courage of their convictions
> >to challenge it.
>
> Rex is too old. His belief system is stuck in the early 90', he never
> heard of things such as the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard and the
> User State Migration Tool, thus his pathetic comments.

Those tools are great for restoring some things, but 3rd party
software doesn't get captured in the restore.  Neither do things like
keyboard settings, display preferences, or toolbar settings.

I've tried several different back-up/recovery tools, and since Windows
95 I haven't seen anything that could reliably back-up and recover a
fully functional Windows system once the system had been re-imaged
with a NEW OPERATING SYSTEM.

And that's the key.  Even a recovery of an XP to XP system is only
about a 70% solution.  At that point, you still have to manually
install 3rd party software, manually set your preferences and settings
for those 3rd party applications, and eventually you end up with
something "sorta like" what you had before, but it can take a few
weeks to get to a system that you are "comfortable" with.

Part of the problem is that a Personal Computer (PC) is a PERSONAL
computer.  A canned factory made, off the shelf solution is a bit like
trying to manufacture one-size-fits-all shoes.

Even when you buy a new pair of shoes, no matter how hard you look,
you won't find a pair as comfortable as the ones you are wearing
because the leather has stretched to your exact foot dimensions, and
every curve and bone has been accomodated.  The best you can do with a
new pair of shoes is try to find something bearable, and suffer in
discomfort for a week or two while the shoes begin to stretch out, and
eventually adjust themselves through cycles of shrinking and
stretching, to your feet.

This would be the equivalent of dealing with a newly re-imaged hard
drive and doing the user settings restorations.

Switching to a new operating system is more like getting a pair of US
Army combat boots that are about two sizes too small, and trying to
"adjust" while you are doing strenuous exercise and running and
marching and exercising for 18 hours per day.

When they give you the new OS, they don't shut down your workload for
a week or two, but they realize that over the next month, you will be
so hobbled by the poorly fitting new "boots" that they have to budget
the "hit" into every project.  Project managers and executives who
don't put in that extra 1-2 weeks of "buffer" for the "OS Upgrade" end
up having to explain why their projects are running 2 weeks late and
$10,000 per person over budget.

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