{"id":585,"date":"2007-12-11T12:53:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T12:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/11\/how-to-justify-a-desktop-upgra\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T12:53:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T12:53:48","slug":"how-to-justify-a-desktop-upgra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/how-to-justify-a-desktop-upgra\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/12\/10\/1327208\">slashdot:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I stumbled across this fascinating Microsoft tutorial entitled &#8220;How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade.&#8221; It&#8217;s an attempt to coach IT professionals on how to sell Windows desktop upgrades internally. Apparently the value of Vista is not readily apparent, requiring detailed instructions on how to connive and cajole into an upgrade from XP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of the Microsoft Site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade<\/strong>&#8230;Standardizing on the latest operating system and having enough RAM to support everyone&#8217;s applications would make your life so much easier and more productive. It could also make your systems efficient and secure. Sounds like an easy decision, right?But, in fact, convincing business managers to upgrade company desktops or migrate them to a newer operating system can sometimes be a very hard sell. Often, management cannot see the value in spending money on something that, from their perspective, already runs smoothly the way it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/canada\/midsizebusiness\/businessvalue\/local\/desktopupgrade.mspx\">here<\/a>, while it is still available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From slashdot: &#8220;I stumbled across this fascinating Microsoft tutorial entitled &#8220;How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade.&#8221; It&#8217;s an attempt to coach IT professionals on how to sell Windows desktop upgrades internally. Apparently the value of Vista is not readily apparent, requiring detailed instructions on how to connive and cajole into an upgrade from XP. Here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/how-to-justify-a-desktop-upgra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-9r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}