[ Thanks to Jason
Perlow for this link. ]
“Those of us that maintain networks in small- or medium-sized
businesses have a unique understanding and appreciation of the
headaches involved in maintaining multiple PCs, each with its own
instances of operating system and applications. Even at home, the
situation isn’t much better: maintaining your kids’ and significant
other’s machines can be an unpleasant chore (particularly on
Windows- based machines), worrisome, and an expensive endeavor,
with decent PC’s including a monitor going for $800-$1000 a pop and
an upgrade cycle measured in two or three short years…”