Non-Technical question

I need information to convince the faculty at our school that we should
invest some time and energy looking at the new Microsoft products coming out
late 2006/early 2007.

Most of the stuff I find online is directed at IT personnel or developers.
Although I can spend a lot of time reading/translating this information, it
would be a lot more helpful if someone could direct me to where I can find,
in simple language, the end-user benefits of these new products. The
information presented for businesses is too muddled with buzz-words to be of
any use to me.

Thanks, bob

"Bob Weiner" <bob (AT) engr (DOT) uconn.edu> wrote

I need information to convince the faculty at our school that we should
invest some time and energy looking at the new Microsoft products coming
out late 2006/early 2007.

Most of the stuff I find online is directed at IT personnel or developers.
Although I can spend a lot of time reading/translating this information,
it would be a lot more helpful if someone could direct me to where I can
find, in simple language, the end-user benefits of these new products.
The information presented for businesses is too muddled with buzz-words to
be of any use to me.

Thanks, bob

You don't describe the types of faculty you are trying to convince, or the

types of software you are touting, but if you're thinking of Windows Vista
and/or Office 2007, I'd consider approaching your IT support staff and
asking if they could set up demo PC's at locations conveniently accessible
to the faculty so they can see for themselves.
You might also approach your computer science/IT faculty to see if they are
interested in championing a beta/CTP demo effort.
Finally, if the faculty in your technical departments is not already aware
of the MSDN AA program, tell them about it with information here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/


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