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Time To Dump XP?
An anonymous reader writes "Gartner is saying it's time to plan your migration now (if you havent already done it). I for one know my company still has loads of users still on XP, citing training costs (time and money) rather than software license fees. Is my company alone in wanting to stay in the 1990s or is Windows 7 the way forward?"
"Is my company alone in wanting to stay in the 1990s or is Window 7 the way forward?"
Uh... yes? no?
The OR version of "or" that computer scientists creates a question for which the answer provides little relevant information. The XOR version of "or" that is the popular meaning in spoken english has similar problems.
users. Surprise BSD fana7ics? I've come Here but now
Mods, please explain how a first post can possibly be "Redundant"?
A comment that has been posted repeatedly in stories A, B, C, and D, is probably redundant in story E even if it is the first post.
(Posted without bonus due to meta-discussion.)
Troll? Is there some new bug in slashcode that automatically and randomly doles out troll mods?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Conversely, now calculate how much money that company has lost by working with inefficient computers for a very long period of time.
Bert
The MS Office ribbon is worse than Hitler. There, I've said it. Hitler only killed 6,000,000 Jews, using an average life expectancy of (72 years / 2) gives us a mere 113529600000000 minutes of human life squandered. A mere drop in the bucket compared to the horrors of the ribbon.
Yes, it is the same piece of crap as xp, nt, w95, ...
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
grammar, however, continue to matter.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
what the hell does this mean?
"My primary role is programming mail merge documents while maintaining all of the document templates we use within Siebel. My secondary role is maintaining validation documentation for new database releases."
you send spam?
Interesting...
So do you not have Microsoft products in the back end?
If not, how do you manage file shares? In a workgroup environment, or are you using samba for domain emulation?
How do you manage centralized logins, if you do at all? (ie: logging in to the workstation authenticates against a central system)
Also, how do you manage centralized policies, if at all? (ie: screensaver policies, wireless policies, etc, all a la GPO).
Do you let all your users run updates (or not) whenever they want to against a remote repository, or is there a way for you to roll out updates in a controlled fashion?
IMO, the biggest thing missing from my perspective for Mac and Linux/*NIX is the above items.
Until then, I don't see a future for Mac or *NIX in the corporate desktop (that is larger than say... 50 systems).