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Originally posted by Andy Baker
I heard a good rumor recently... and it seems to be one that will come true.
The rumor is that Microsoft will be providing their XP software package in all of the team's kits this year... and maybe even MS Project.
I wonder how many people on each team will be able to use these software copies, or if we can only load them on one computer.
Andy B.
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If Microsoft is providing teams with Microsoft Project, I highly, highly recommend you sell it on eBay and use the profits for robot parts, or throw it out. The company I work for has tried to use this software package over the past summer. They attempted to train all the employees on how to use it, and it simply is far, far too complex for it to be of any use. After one of my co-workers literally spent all summer implementing the use of Project in the company, it remains unused because the amount of productivity it saves you is rediculously low compared to the effort you have to put in to use it. I think a chalkboard is a more ingenuous product than MS Project.
As far as XP, I hear it's a nice operating system although resource-intensive... but I don't know what FIRST teams would use it for. The way licences work with XP as I understand is that Microsoft maintains a database of which physical computer (it actually stores several different characteristics of your computer -- mac address, CPU speed, hard drive size, etc...) is allowed to use a specific XP licence key. Therefore, unless Microsoft is giving out multi-computer licence keys, then you'd only be able to put it on a single machine.
Patrick