[mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

[Dave Arbogast]

What really amazes me is nearly all CIO's are forgetting Business 101 or 
even SOX requirements -

Cost / benefit analysis....    Office 2007 cost 3x (12x?) more to 
operate, does it provide 3x more utility in return ? Better still, 
Office 2007 VS OpenOffice.

Same goes for Vista vs. XP, or better still Vista vs. Linux (pick your 
distro)

If they were really doing their job, they would see the hardware they 
invested in is not tied to an OS / Office suite that cost them millions 
per year in acquisition cost and many times more  in AV. / maintenance / 
performance costs.

-dave

Michael Rudas wrote:

>LOL
>
>I mention this kind of thing on a Linux list because most peoples'
>perceptions of what a computer IS are so heavily influence by
>Microsoft software, so it impacts us all -- and MS has become an
>anchor, dragging all computer users to the briny depths of Trojans,
>spyware, and wasted computer power...
>
>"Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on Windows
>Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as much
>processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years ago
>(Office 2000)."
><http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html>
>
>~~ Mikey
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