I'm well aware of that as I to am in software development. However to say to a customer that not only will you simply have to swallow this and by a new piece of software, it will require that you also upgrade most if not all of your hardware, because we don't know how to do this any better and refuse to learn is pathetic. My company would not stay in business long, would yours?
However you also have Windows ME, the palm pilot, the SEGA Saturn, and other technological 'changes' that now grace the scrap pile of history. The question is how much financial damage is done before a new and improved turd makes its way to that pile.
I'm sorry but that's foolish. They've had since 2002 to recognize such serious security faults in XP/2003 and correct them without it being asked or demanded of them. This article in effect says, "We recognize there are serious enough security concerns to warrant the development of an entirely new OS, yet there is no plan on our side to do something much less painful and expensive, namely fix the issues in the current OS, primarily because this makes us no extra money. Therefore, here is a way to convince the technically ignorant to pay an extraordinary amount of money for both hardware and software upgrades." Talk about passing the savings on to the customer!
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I'm well aware of that as I to am in software development. However to say to a customer that not only will you simply have to swallow this and by a new piece of software, it will require that you also upgrade most if not all of your hardware, because we don't know how to do this any better and refuse to learn is pathetic. My company would not stay in business long, would yours?
However you also have Windows ME, the palm pilot, the SEGA Saturn, and other technological 'changes' that now grace the scrap pile of history. The question is how much financial damage is done before a new and improved turd makes its way to that pile.
I'm sorry but that's foolish. They've had since 2002 to recognize such serious security faults in XP/2003 and correct them without it being asked or demanded of them. This article in effect says, "We recognize there are serious enough security concerns to warrant the development of an entirely new OS, yet there is no plan on our side to do something much less painful and expensive, namely fix the issues in the current OS, primarily because this makes us no extra money. Therefore, here is a way to convince the technically ignorant to pay an extraordinary amount of money for both hardware and software upgrades." Talk about passing the savings on to the customer!