From slashdot:
"I stumbled across this fascinating Microsoft tutorial entitled "How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade." It'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's a bit of the Microsoft Site:
How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade
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Standardizing on the latest operating system and having enough RAM to support everyone'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.
Read it here, while it is still available.
Ah, Vista. The Susan B. Anthony Dollar of operating systems.
Hmmm, if there's some question about users not having sufficient RAM, I don't think installing Vista is the way to fix it.
If there is insufficient RAM to run smoothly, then installing Vista should actually shut the computer down. At that point, a RAM increase is no longer a 'luxury', but a 'necessity'. Simple. Wrong, evil, but simple.