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To: Alomex who wrote (10389)	3/29/1998 3:00:00 PM
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Alomex on Mar 29 1998 2:25PM EST said > Me: I spend, literally, 99% of the time running > apps, and 1% installing new apps and/or hardware. > > Ian: I believe you - provided the apps you're > running include uninstallers, anti-virus, drive > utilities, and full Windows re-installation. > > No at all. Even if we are to assume that all > installations are disasters you still come out > with a 99% to 1% figure. I have had a mac (of some sort) on my desk(s) for the last 10 years ... but I have watched the guy at the next desk with his NT machines. He re-installed the whole system TWELVE TIMES in 10 days (including wiping his hard disc a couple of times.) This was to get a collection of MicroSoft Applications to work with each other under a Microsoft OS ...??? This used most of the potentially productive hours of those 10 days. His server crashes everyday, and when he phones MS technical support they tell him to restart his NT server at least once a day ... what sort of "server" is that ... The corporate world is littered with dysfunctional computers with mis-installed software... the only thing that saves MS from scorn is that most unsophisticated users blame themselves when they can't make the system work! I could go on and on but so as not to bore the regulars here I will refer you to the "Gistics Return on Investment" report: "In an independent research programme over three years, the US consulting firm GISTICS talked to 30,226 digital media professionals and 10,000 companies throughout North America. The aim was to examine the affect desktop computing platforms have on creativity, productivity and the bottom line - and how to assess the return-on-investment factors for new and replacement technology. In each of these key measures, Macintosh convincingly outperformed the alternatives ..." The report is available from: media.euro.apple.com (This is old news for mac users ... but I guess that you may not have seen it.) grow