Exactly They have a ton of great products....it's just that their biggest one (Desktop Windows) is the biggest disappointment. Office 2007 is great, their mice/keyboards are great, Xbox is great, and bash it all you want, the Zune is a pretty decent DAP. I work in IT, and their enterprise stuff is my favorite, because it makes my job a hell of a lot easier. Very robust, integrates well together, and because it is primarily GUI driven, it is easier to pick up on new products/features than it is with a command-line interface. (Although that is available in many of their products...consoles can be much more efficient if you know how to use them...I manage most aspects of Exchange with the console). The other advantage is I can train interns/temps very quickly on how to add a user, and anything I don't train them on they can figure out more quickly, because it's easier to hunt and peck around a GUI for an option than trying to find the right command.
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Exactly They have a ton of great products....it's just that their biggest one (Desktop Windows) is the biggest disappointment. Office 2007 is great, their mice/keyboards are great, Xbox is great, and bash it all you want, the Zune is a pretty decent DAP. I work in IT, and their enterprise stuff is my favorite, because it makes my job a hell of a lot easier. Very robust, integrates well together, and because it is primarily GUI driven, it is easier to pick up on new products/features than it is with a command-line interface. (Although that is available in many of their products...consoles can be much more efficient if you know how to use them...I manage most aspects of Exchange with the console). The other advantage is I can train interns/temps very quickly on how to add a user, and anything I don't train them on they can figure out more quickly, because it's easier to hunt and peck around a GUI for an option than trying to find the right command.