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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Oct 28, 2006 at 02:16 PM
Version 3 of Idea Mason will allow to export the data to rtf - so you are not limited to Word anymore when you write a composition in IM.
Dominik
Posted by Kenneth Rhee
Oct 28, 2006 at 02:51 PM
Franz Grieser wrote:
>Are you
>serious? At least in Germany, you would have had to try hard to find a Windows PC in the
>last 4-5 years that does not fit the requirements (including the need for Word).
>
>
>Franz
Windows XP has been out since late 2001 (5 years old). In computing, that’s ancient history. As far as I know even “slow” companies have 4 to 5 year PC replacement cycle (thus almost everyone would have upgraded from either NT or 2000, and most consumers I know use Windows XP Home right now. In fact, most consumer PC’s come with MS Works preinstalled these days.
So, I don’t see how this could be an obstacle for people to purchase software???
Posted by Graham Smith
Oct 29, 2006 at 08:36 AM
>>Are you
>>serious? At least in Germany, you would have had
>to try hard to find a Windows PC in the
>>last 4-5 years that does not fit the
>requirements (including the need for Word).
>Windows XP has been out
>since late 2001 (5 years old). In computing, that’s ancient history. As far as I know
>even “slow” companies have 4 to 5 year PC replacement cycle (thus almost everyone
>would have upgraded from either NT or 2000, and most consumers I know use Windows XP
>Home right now. In fact, most consumer PC’s come with MS Works preinstalled these
>days.
>
>So, I don’t see how this could be an obstacle for people to purchase
>software???
In the University I work in there are still a good proportion of academic staff running win2000, with a replacement policy that seems to be based on a “replace when broken” approach. If my department reflects the whole University then about 20% are running win2000. 12 months ago that would have been 80% running win2000. It certainly influenced my assessment of Idea Mason, when I first looked at it. Not so importnat now, as 3 out of the 6 PCs I use regularly now have XP installed.
I am certainly aware of many large businessses, home users and self employed consultants still running wIn2000 or even win98se, who see no particular reason to upgrade because the OS is still fulfilling the primary needs.
Having said that, I can understand why a company would choose not to support an old OS, but certainly in the UK, I see a high proportion of people who are not yet using XP.
Graham
Posted by Kenneth Rhee
Oct 29, 2006 at 11:22 AM
Graham Smith wrote:
>
>In the University I
>work in there are still a good proportion of academic staff running win2000, with a
>replacement policy that seems to be based on a “replace when broken” approach. If my
>department reflects the whole University then about 20% are running win2000. 12
>months ago that would have been 80% running win2000. It certainly influenced my
>assessment of Idea Mason, when I first looked at it. Not so importnat now, as 3 out of the
>6 PCs I use regularly now have XP installed.
>
>I am certainly aware of many large
>businessses, home users and self employed consultants still running wIn2000 or even
>win98se, who see no particular reason to upgrade because the OS is still fulfilling
>the primary needs.
>
>Having said that, I can understand why a company would choose not
>to support an old OS, but certainly in the UK, I see a high proportion of people who are
>not yet using XP.
>
>Graham
Graham,
Interesting perspective from UK.
I do think it’s only a matter of time (not long in my book) everyone is going to transition to Windows XP or Vista. MS stopped supporting Win 98 or ME in June 2006, and Windows 2000 service pack 5 was scrapped a few years ago, and is now in extended support. The licensing for Windows 2000 is not even available now so that any new PC will not have Windows 2000 installed. . .
Some of my programs I’m running every day don’t even support Windows 98 right now. I did run Windows 2000 before, but XP is so much more stable and “convenient” when it comes to drivers that I can’t see any good reason why anyone who can afford it does not want to upgrade . . .
Posted by Graham Smith
Oct 29, 2006 at 11:58 AM
Kenneth
>I did run Windows 2000 before, but XP is so much more
>stable and “convenient” when it comes to drivers that I can’t see any good reason why
>anyone who can afford it does not want to upgrade . . .
I seem to approach this from the other direction, unless you know that XP will solve a specific problem I cannot see why anyone would want to upgrade.
Graham