It's just as well- Windows runs like sap until you tweak it.
I can't imagine why... SAP R/3 sucks worse than any software ever imagined.
SAP R3 is the most user unfriendly software I've ever had to use.
When we were surveying the market for enterprise software SAP was one of the systems we reviewed.
Several of our customers have implemented it, and it is a nightmare. Software is supposed to facilitate a company's operations - but with SAP (an apt acronym) it's the other way around. Our customers have adopted some really stupid business practices because of this ridiculous software.
A medium size SAP customer gave us a pitch about why it had been so good for him to go with SAP. Problem was, he'd spent nearly as much on consultants as we had for our whole system !
And we run rings around them for efficiency, ease of use, excellent reporting, excellent linkages - we love our system. We implemented over New Years 1999. Finished the year with one system and started with our new one, and haven't looked back. We had around 500 active work orders during the transition.
Want a good system ? Try Visual Manufacturing by Lilly.
MS would buy or merge with SAP to get the EU regulators off it's back. After such a merger MS becomes *voila* a European company, thus not beat up on the way an American company is.