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'get it back many times over' ? How?
Authored by: marcosdumay on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 03:43 PM EST
I dunno. But I've also heard similar things.

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'get it back many times over' ? How? n/t
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 12:14 PM EST
Just remember that the people who make those decisions
rarely have to live with their decisions, all they have to
do is sell it. It is all the "lower" people who have to
live with the results, and unless all the lower people
decide to walk off the job in protest (not likely since
most have to still feed their families) the decision will
stand even if it stinks. The company will just live with
it and move on and keep doing business. When was the last
time a company's temporary loss of productivity due to IT
problems caused them to go out of business?

It could well be that this is just another move by M$ to
make all their users uncomfortable using any thing else.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 04:45 PM EST

Given on-going combined costs of running Microsoft - I can't see how it's possible to get your "MS costs back many times over" just by choosing MS.

I'd chalk this up as very poor MS marketing trying to convince people they can actually make money simply by going with MS.

Like that line of reasoning that goes like:

    I wasn't going to spend money, but look at this X that I bought for only $200 - I saved $300.
    Err.... are you ever going to use it for anything?
    No... but look at the savings!
From my perspective: the person just spent $200 on nothing.

Maybe the "spend money on MS and make it back many times over for doing so" is like that.

On a parallel subject, I've actually seen where someone would have been better off without the improved software. The older software was faster, used less keystrokes to do the tasks and was far more automated. The individual ended up completing less because they simply had to do more manually.

I've always been boggled why decisions like that are made. I can just imagine:

    Manager: Yea! The New System is working great!
    other: so.... what are the stats with regards how much data entry per person per hour are being accomplished?
    Manager: They used to be a person could complete 500 entries an hour. With the new system they only complete 400 entries an hour but the intangible benefits are huge!
    other: .... .. ..... err.... .... oookkkaaayyyyy
SNAP!

I just figured it out! It's like Bing where MS actually pays people to use it!

RAS

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