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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (165993)	6/7/2002 3:33:17 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

No problem. To answer something you asked in a separate message, I know few businesses bigger than the home office/small office market that are using Win95, 98 or ME. Most businesses of any substantial size moved over to NT and to the extent that they've upgraded they are mostly on Win2000 Pro. Office 2000 seems to be fairly standard. Office XP shares the same file formats, so the two mix pretty well, but there are few real benefits to upgrading, unless your licensing scheme with Microsoft dictates it. Bottom line to me is that most businesses are already on platforms that can support the current versions of software for most purposes. Those who aren't are the ones that seem to see no reason to upgrade from where they were 5-6 years ago and I wouldn't even try to predict when they would change their tune. mg