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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ajtj99 who wrote (4425)	11/9/2001 10:11:15 AM
From: Jdaasoc	Respond to of 99280

There is no other compelling reason to upgrade to XP from Windows 9x. eweek did a interview of about 6 system administrators and polled them on the rollout of WinXP/Office XP. More then one stated they would roll out XP on laptops first for the aforementioned remote access features but plan to stick with approx 50/50 mix of 98 and W2K for the foreseeable future. PS SOX decline inline with NDX. Atleast it's not a whipping boy today. I think BKX may slide below 800 beofre this correction is over.

To: ajtj99 who wrote (4425)	11/9/2001 10:28:59 AM
From: AreWeThereYet	Respond to of 99280

XP is more important to home users than business users, it is the first home OS that completely get rid of the kernel of 80s and 90s. The cut down in bootup and hibernation time is already a great sell point. In the business side, most SAs will likely continue their W2k/XP migration plan. Regarding training, yes the new UI will take some times to get used to, but you can deploy XP without much training by using the "classic" face. It's still uncertain that how XP will do in business environment, especially we are still waiting for the server version but I will never buy a machine with ME or 98 now.