At 11:57 PM 31/07/01 +1000, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>"A lot of folks are not adopting Windows 2000 as
>quickly as Microsoft hoped. They're the same ones
>wondering, 'Why retire the NT version of the track?' "
>
>When I asked whether or not Microsoft might decertify
>50 percent or more of its MCSEs on Jan. 1,
>Microsoft's McSweeney replied, "I don't think that's
>an unreasonable number."
Is this a situation not unlike the Win3.X, 9X issue? The user really
doesn't want to upgrade, there isn't a need to upgrade unless you want to
upgrade to the upgraded office software, and the skills that are in place
are really what are needed rather than the bloatware? Is M$ once again
playing a business income ploy by decertifying people who still have needed
and functional skills for the majority of the marketplace? Is a
decertified person any less valuable to an organisation that stays with the
prior version software?
Jan
JLWhitaker Associates
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit@primenet.com -- http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm
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