Erol Uyar

I am a system administrator in a company. I have a windows network and all the users have limited rights. Recently some of my colleagues purchased NW-805 devices and requested the sonicstage software to be installed. As a general rule, we are installing other softwares too, as long as those are licenced. So I have installed the sonic stage software on their computers. But it didn't work out. Because SonicStage needs "administrator rights or power user rights" on their computers. No guys, I don't allow my users to have admin or power user rights, never. There are some other music devices in the environment such as Ipod or so and none of them have such a stupid requirements. No one can have admin rights or power user rights in my environment and I don't think any smart system admin would allow it. I am asking now to Sony Network Admins; "How many users do you have who has administrator rights?" Can you answer me please? Silly, huh? Now, I have uninstalled SonicStage from those PCs and adviced them to return the NW-805 devices to the shop and buy Ipod or any other thing but not a Sony device anymore. I declare this to everybody in my environment (forums, lists etc.) as well. Because I heard that all versions of SonicStage have the same requirements which an admin would never give to the users. I guess by requiring these privileges Sony is trying to tell this; "Sony devices can be used only by system administrators. If you are a normal user, don't buy my devices". Is that the case? So funny then...