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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 10:29 PM EDT |
I'm fairly sure the IT techs will just go limp here and chortle as
they make life hellish for the vendors: "I'm sorry, HP, but we can't purchase
any of your desktops. They permit booting of unauthorized software, and that's
not acceptable under our policies. What unauthorized software? Windows 8, of
course, It's not on our list, and if your machines can't block it we're not
allowed to purchase them.".
I'm sure the vendors will chortle
knowing that it's effectively an impossible request, and will reply "Of course,
we understand. If you should find yourself unable to identify any vendors
capable of meeting that specific requirement, please call on us again and we
will be pleased to provide you with a product at a competitive or leading price
point that meets all your other requirements". They will then let the
idiot clients waste hours of the clients' purchasing agents' time calling other
manufacturers to get the same answer.
The only risk is that some
manufacturer might be willing to lie about providing that capability and
afterwards pretend to have misunderstood the request because the obvious
interpretation was impossible and therefore presumably erroneous.
Instead
of wasting their time calling up vendors to ask for an impossibility, competent
IT staff will prefer to spend the time explaining to IT executives that the
requirement is impossible and that trying to satisfy it will only ensure buying
computers from a vendor that is either incompetent or willing to lie to their
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Authored by: Ed L. on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 11:06 PM EDT |
Why can't the corporation just hash their custom WindowsN build, pay Verisign
the one-time $99 fee for a corporate key, and get on with life? Like Fedora,
but without the ethical qualms?
What am I missing?
--- Real
Programmers mangle their own memory. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 12:20 PM EDT |
The other processor makers have an option to implement but MS has a requirement
that ARM only support the TCM stuff for Windows 8. I predict that ARM
processors and Windows 8 will not be something that people (or corporations)
seek out.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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