[Gllug] Windows 7

[Christopher Hunter]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:37 +0000, John Winters wrote:

> XP certainly still has its faults, but they are manageable, 

Actually, in a real, business sense, they aren't.  You can't expect
users to maintain their own systems, so you end up with the "corporate
imaging" option which produces a huge workload for the IT maintenance
team.  The trojan, virus and other Windows stupidities that hinder
productivity also have all to be factored in to the "TCO", which (no
matter how many bogus statistics MS try to show) IS always several times
higher with Windows (of any flavour) than with anything else.

I had this argument just last week with a very senior manager in a huge
government department.  His entire reasoning (apart from the fact that
his boss told him to) was that Linux admins "cost more" than Windows
admins.  I pointed out that even this was bogus in that they would need
about ten Linux admins for the organisation, where at present they
employ 97 Windows "admins"!

C.

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