To say nothing about the ridiculous price. Especially for a service that's unlikely to be used in any given month. F'em all.

The big winners will be the people who sell crack codes on the black market for just under MSRP. Because automakers' coders are no smarter than any other industries' engineers.

40 years ago or so, I taught those same remedial classes to freshmen students at a large Midwestern land-grant 4-year university. The only reason my pass rate was higher than 44% was because I felt sorry for the kids. I was then, and am now still considered a good instructor. Most of those students had no business being in college in the first place, and I could tell that few if any would finish regardless of how I graded them. Remember, these are students who were unable to pass the basic requirements coming out of high school. Not representative of the population as a whole. I suspect the "online-edness" of these classes has very little to do with it.

Actually, I always try to be first to break out the jargon. I find it makes the C*O's eyes glaze over, and the meeting is cut short. That's a win for me.

Where oh where are my mod points when I really need them?

http://xkcd.com/538/

I wonder.... will it be fooled if images are converted to/from lossy formats a few times.....

Management may think they're going to make the switch, but when it comes to actually doing it, it'll prove to cost more in terms of effort than they'll save on licensing. There's a hell of a lot more to VMWare than just the virtualization of servers, and it doesn't take a propeller-head to effectively use the tools. Can the same be said of the alternatives?

Warning: 4 out of 5 statements of "fact" from Microsoft are completely made up.

Well is anyone _really_ surprised at this? If I were publishing this, I'd announce a delay even if it was on-schedule, just for the added publicity.

Mod parent up, please. Why is this glaringly obvious solution NEVER discussed?

That can be said of nearly every invention since fire: no users, no problems.

Eh? It's their history in such areas that convinced me they could screw up Water Soup with a recipe from Alton Brown.

If all we find are collapsed ones, what makes them think the uncollapsed ones are safe?