Re: At last, the big zamboni hits the playing field

[Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>]

At 8:39 AM -0800 2001/1/14, Strata Rose Chalup wrote:

>  Ah, to have lived this long!  I don't carry a grudge against Microsoft
>  itself, unlike a number of colleagues I know.  Nonetheless, it has
>  always intensely irritated me to see the "zero administration" lie
>  spread every time (for instance) the sales guys come in to try to
>  Exchange-ify a perfectly healthy mail environment.  It's so nice to have
>  something I can actually cite, from Microsoft itself, to combat The Big
>  Lie.

	Of course.  Microsoft wants to make money from selling training 
and consulting just as much as anyone.  I'm just surprised that it's 
taken them this long to write something that directly contradicts 
their "zero administration" position.


	Of course, I'm sure they'll find a way to spin it so that they 
don't sound like they're lying.  I'm sure that they'll say something 
like:

		That's only for Enterprise customers -- workgroup customers
		still get the full benefits of 'zero administration', and by
		re-focussing our energies in this way, we can continue to
		make that 'zero cost' even lower than it already was.

	Or some such BS.

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