[whydoyoucare]

A common mistake I've seen in the industry is to "look down" upon the IT staff, which makes it much difficult to get a meaningful conversation going.

Yes, wiping W2K and installing W95 is problematic and insecure, but I always believe in the power of a polite conversation and have had great success in persuading the powers-that-be to change their stance. :-)

[cratermoon]

Oh, but I was IT staff at the time. I wasn't in charge of desktop support, but I knew the guys. They didn't care for it either, it was policy from a high level in a company that, as a whole, did look down on IT. One of my coworkers actually went through the whole process of talking and negotiating to try to get a Win2K laptop instead of having W95 forced on it. No luck.

And, if anyone has been wondering, yes, there was hardware in the brand-new laptop that W95 didn't support. It "worked" with a generic fallback driver but lost some of the functionality that made the laptop worth buying.