>>Maybe someday most all of the really neat stuff will be standard! < yeah, right > ;)
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>I've gotten most of my clients to agree that they'll standardize on IE and WSH in-house - the moves by NAI and Symantec to require IE4 or later to automate some of their web-based AV services cerainly didn't hurt my insistance that the same tools were required for broad features of my apps. Then showing how I could deliver functionality that was leveraged off the browser and WSH quickly for less money usually clinched theings.

What size client base do you have? We have literally thousands. No way we can get them to agree on a minimum system configuration, let alone a "standard". No matter what we spec, someone *always* tries to "get by" with less. At least (most of) those customers don't stress the lack of performance once we point out to them what the minimum is.