Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:16:16 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Upgrading to XP Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> > yahoo at omniphile.com 12/18/07 12:18 PM >>> >At 12/18/2007 10:04 AM, Michael Walsh wrote: >>http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/12/14/review- >windows-xp.aspx >> >>I shall start the clock ticking to see when the first "Use Some Other >>Operating System" reply first appears. > >No Mike, you *deserve* XP... ;-) Well, I don't know about "deserve" but it's what we have here. The Mac users are another story. Now ... if anyone thinks their selling skills are really really good, you could try to convince Hopkins to switch to something else. Note that Hopkins has spent - by now - over $222,000,000 on a university wide "enterprise software" package from SAP. SAP on Windows machines will not work properly without ActiveX ennabled. When ActiveX is enabled SAP works marginally better. mjw