They came up with a standard for deploying software that, with some revisions, is still in use today. Microsoft thought this too, and back in 1999-2000, they partnered with a company called Veritas who had a product called WinInstall. You’d need to clone Billy the desktop tech a whole lot of times to get enterprise-wide rollouts done in a timely fashion. To roll out software to that number of desktops and laptops becomes a very costly investment if you are doing it manually. But let’s say you’re a large multinational corporation with 50,000 or 100,000 desktops. This works fine for an office of 10 – 50 people. If you’re lucky, he remote controls your PC, and uses a shared network drive to install software to your PC. In many small to medium sized companies (and even some fairly large ones), when you need a new piece of software installed on your desktop, you call the IT guy, or put in a trouble ticket, and the IT guy shows up with a DVD or CD, and installs your software.
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