Ray, If you are in a little office many miles away from the head
office, maybe continents away, they are unlikely to consider your
suggestion. If they have 15,000 workstations to look after and make
secure, they are not going to look kindly on someone installing an
unsupported operating system.
If the corporate IT had not been considering and testing stuff, the
organisation would still be using 95 or 3.1. "Because it is policy"
also means "Because if we allow you to do that, we'd have people all
over the place doing it, and all hell would break loose" Such as
interchange of documents breaking down because X saved his document in
format A and Y can't read it with program B.
Once you get past an uncertain size, you need Corporate Standards or
else it wont work. The gods know I rail against them enough myself at
times, but I do see their place.
Yes, I've trashed perfectly good XP installations and re-imaged to
2000. I've not liked doing it, but I understand the reasons.
Cheers,
Cliff
(MVP)
