iMacs are cool (except when they are running Windows)

Went to a client training site today (my work is quoting on a new sales tool for that company, and we were checking out their current tool) and it was a room full of iMacs. This is the room where they train new sales people on their products and how to sell it.

However each one is running Windows XP! They had also been been stripped out of useful programs (not even paint or wordpad remains) and were running at 1280×768 for some reason (native resolution for 20 inch iMac is 1680×1050). The actual sales tool runs really slowly, even though it runs over a 100Mbps network (this was one of the many reasons for the rebuild).

I suppose this was the company that migrated to a brand new .Net based billing system (”Windows is cool”). The deployment was delayed by a year because it didn’t work (and still doesn’t work properly months later: still much slower than their old system and lots of bugs).

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