At 2007-02-23 12:38 PM Friday, STeve Andre' wrote:
>On Friday 23 February 2007 11:20:35 David McFarlane wrote:
> > Or maybe, "How can we avoid rolling out Vista?" Do we really have any
> > choice in the long run?
>
>Absolutely. I haven't run Windows for anything I do personally, since
>2001. The open source world just gets better and better.
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>This is fodder for a meeting at some point.
Yes, fodder for a meeting. I'm skeptical that we could get all our users
(i.e., faculty and support staff), or even a good proportion of them (say,
75%) to quit the Microsoft/Windows habit. And if we could, would we really
want to support a dozen or so platforms across the campus, or would we want
to standardize on some other particular system? Could be a rich discussion.
-- David McFarlane, Systems Designer
Dept. Psychology, Michigan State University
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