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

To: bobby beara who wrote (14082)	12/18/2001 7:30:02 AM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

Actually, Bobby, if you have Illustrator 6.0, the person with 10.0 can just save it as a 6.0 file. There are some things that you may lose in the transition, but normally you know what the other person is using before you hand them a disc. If we upgrade graphics software in our office, there has to be productivity enhancement. Some of the features that are added are design elements, but they also enhance productivity by reducing steps. Take Mac OS, for example. There hasn't been a real compelling reason to upgrade since OS 7.0 or so. We use 8.0, even though we could have had OSX. We are a bit more analytical about upgrading stuff than most places. Unless it can be cost justified as a productivity enhancing expense (and verified as such) we don't spend money on it.

To: bobby beara who wrote (14082)	12/18/2001 7:56:50 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99280

There are no "must have" applications that require an upgrade. A 500-800MHz PC can run just fine everything that's out there. Maybe you can tell us why the masses (and yes it has to be the masses, not some niche app) would want to upgrade. What's the carrot that they can do now that they can't do with their 800MHz PC and Win 2000/Me/98? And BTW you can forget about corporations doing any upgrading. Cause not only would they need the expense of new PCs but the huge expense of new training on Win XP with no new features to the Win 2000s they already have. Business will probably wait for the follow on to XP in 2003 to think before upgrading anything. JMHO.