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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (178829)	7/22/2004 6:22:18 PM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Lizzie, re "PC upgrade cycles are a thing of the past until we get a new killer app " I am glad to see an end to the days when software kept requiring a hardware upgrade .. because the hard disk wasn't big enough anymore .. or the CPU wasn't fast enough anymore .. or memory wasn't large enough anymore. This software-hardware linkage caused a lot of bloatware releases IMO .. bloatware which we still live with today. And I sure hope that a "killer app" doesn't start that cycle all over again. I can't afford it. Oh, I can afford the dollars .. I just can't afford the time for OS re-installations. :-)) Ron

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (178829)	7/22/2004 6:57:14 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Respond to of 186894

I don't know that we need a new killer app, but we need some sort of additional functionality, that people care about, that hogs a lot of cycles and memory. I'm not sure what it would be. As we've discussed, there are lots of apps out there that require more than a 3-4 year old PC can deliver well, but they're just not mainstream enough to matter and often are expensive seperate licenses as well. Part of the reason you don't see stuff like Project and Visio on desktops everywhere is that the basic corporate license for Office covers Powerpoint, Excel and Word. Very few corporations are willing to license Visio, Project and even Access for the whole organization, and those 5-10 user license packs are expensive as hell. If they gave everybody Visio for free as part of the basic office suite, I suspect more people would come up with day-to-day reasons to use it, just as people a few years ago suddenly realized that every 2-paragraph status report could easily be "improved" by turning it into a 10-slide powerpoint with full color graphics and animated transitions... [Seriously, I've found that one of the best ways to improve project team efficiency is to remove Powerpoint from every PC used by a project team member.] For better or worse, Microsoft has realized that they make more money by charging people who really need those tools a lot of extra money for having them, especially if you get the enterprise versions with all the goodies. As a result, they're not mainstream and aren't pushing demand.