How Product Evaluation Strategies and Standards Emerged - Product standards are lists of hardware, operating system, network, and application software products that have been selected to meet the needs of users in an organization. It might appear that product incompatibility and competition simply reflected a healthy, competitive market environment. However, the lack of product standards in the 80's caused several problems. Match the problem with the statement that best describes it. Question 2 options: Increased support costs Lack of Skills Transfer Limited Data Transfer Hardware Repair Problems Excessive Parts Inventories 1. Increased costs as support groups struggled to assist users with so many different types of PCs and software. 2. Large inventories of PC hardware parts required to repair computers. 3. Limited opportunities to transfer and share information between users. 4. Increased difficulty to train and equip hardware service technicians to repair different hardware platforms. 5. User skills are difficult to transfer from one system to another