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To: dybdahl who wrote (61768)	10/20/2001 9:52:00 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Two years is a lot longer than it used to be. In any event, nobody is forced to upgrade every two years. MSFT is just providing incentives to encourage customers to stay current. You pay less for upgrades if you do so with reasonable regularity. If you want to foot-drag you don't get the upgrade discounts, but you only actually pay when you decide to upgrade. Decide never to upgrade and you pay nothing. Let's be honest. Those still running Windows 3.1 on ancient PCs are generating revenue for nobody except PC repair shops. At some point such "customers" become more a liability than an asset. Such penny-wise-pound-foolish attitudes are increasingly out of step with the realities of business in the 21st century. Businesses who view IT as a pure cost are unlikely to fare well against competitors who view it as a strategic asset, so it makes very good business sense for IT vendors to align themselves with the latter group.

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