You got it... basically what you have to deal with are these
roadblocks to upgrades
- cost of OS upgrade
- having someone who will install it (k-6 teachers tend not to like
to poke at their computers and many schools have no tech support or
one guy in the whole district to do it all, ill see you next month)
- cost of ram and hard drive that may be needed by older computer
- fear that older computers cant hack running the newer os (not
usually true, but no one wants to spend the money and have to explain
if the computer now runs slower...)
- fear of older software not working on newer system (usually not a
problem, but a strong fear anyway)
- strong fear computer might die in an upgrade (not rational, but
its there, backs into if it aint broke dont fix it)
i cant get publishers to take software that only requires recent oses
as it narrows the market way too much to make a profit for them.
I cant afford the full testing company for a full os matrix test,
usually can just get the biggies with the testing system i have in
place (moonlighter at an ed testing company
Jeffrey Reynolds
6620 Michaels Dr.
Bethesda, MD 20817
301.469.8562
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jun 4, 2007, at 9:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Simple logic really. If it ain't broke, don't mess with it.
If the schools/mums aren't buying the kids new software what possible
advantage could running upgrades do?
Assuming that everything is running fine now, doing an OS upgrade,
at best
will require you to upgrade a host of software/drivers. If you
lucky you'll
just get away with the time it takes, more likely you'll have to
fork over
cash (which the schools aren't going to do) to upgrade at least one
piece of
software that is now no longer compatible. At worst you'll also be
up for
more ram :-(
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