<slapping forehead> Oh Gawd!! This simply means they haven't accurately weighed the costs of staying that far behind. It also indicates the assumption that they simply haven't measured anything is likely to be true. I work for a company which makes similar mistakes. Every time (no exaggeration) they have tempered the inability to consitently train employees by not moving ahead, it has cost them severely in less than 2 years. They don't seem to learn that point very quickly either.<g> Greg Chapman http://www.mousetrax.com "Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11! With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?" > -----Original Message----- > From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Colin > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:37 PM > To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [mso] Re: exe files > > > Dian > > Well said. > > Absolutely true. > > Many large companies simply will not update because of the > huge learning > curve in training several thousands users to learn a new version. > > I know one large (very large) company here which still uses Windows 95 > for a lot of its people. > > Colin > > **************************************** > Colin McDonald > colinmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > **************************************** > > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************