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This I'm afraid is a sad indictment on the state of mind of a lot of so called sysadmins these days. A major role of the sysadmin is to evaluate the options available to their employer and work to integrate advances in technology to the benefit of their users and the business, no matter what their personal preferences are.
There is no way I would class the evaluation as adequate "two users for a whole week", this is not evaluation it is merely paying lip service to the idea of system evaluation.
It would appear that the "trial" was set up to use new software (word 2007), on a New OS, (Win7), which invalidates any results for either item.
My many years experience in the IT business has shown me that although human nature is such that when offered the option to change the likely response is "no thank you" the actual change is taken in their stride by the the vast majority of users .
If you are going to evaluate a new system let's do it by use of results not pre-conceived FUD due to a personal unwillingness or ability to encompass change
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Last edited by Barman58; 26 Sep 2009 at 15:14. Reason: Tidy code for clarity