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Ready, set, Lion! How to rein in users eager for the new Mac OS

Tell them that they are still running a 10 year old operating system and that it isnt worth it to pay for what amounts to a service pack, especially considering that you get those from Microsoft free of charge.

I was thinking that anything that has Snow Leopard as a prerequisite is really just a service pack. If you can't install this software from a clean hard drive it's not a complete operating system. I have to admit that $30 is a good deal but I want bootable media.

Can't believe an IT professional would allow users what they want! How did they sneak apple products past your guard! We should unite and bring back MS-DOS..........

There is still a big problem with this update. Apple really should've thought this through for Enterprise environments. If I block the iTunes store from my network, I'm going to have a MASSIVE amount of complaints from users on their iPads, iPods, and various MacBooks who genuinely want to download various other programs or apps. This is NOT a solution...

The biggest problem I see is keeping the workforce on an even keel. Small business' already have the issue of not wanting to limit the workforce from supporting themselves to avoid having to pay IT people to do routine and mundane tasks. But now instead of having someone running a .0.X different version of Entourage or Outlook, it becomes very easy (not that it was really hard before) to have people running significantly different operating systems. I am a huge fan of making managers manage their people's behavior rather than forcing the IT folks to be babysitters, but this may be the time to start locking down the boxes. Or at very least start providing much more specific information to the end users about they can and cannot do.