We are talking about corporate users. Yes the new laptop needs to run XP if that is what the corporate image is and what IT is trained to support. The exsting equipment runs fine so why upgrade wont fly? Machines die. I bet if they still made 8 year old laptops corps would gladly buy them to keep running XP sadly.
I am with you as the grandparent sees no reason to leave XP and hardware support is a big one as it takes more and more effort in pain to just get XP to boot on a new laptop replacing an old one. With no command queing in SATA it will be much slower than the old one too as the failback driver for XP really blows goatballs.
It is time to quit XP even whinning and screaming and crying. Tell the beancounters to screw off as there is no savings keeping it around in 2012 and especially in 2013 when we have EFI machines with touchscreens. XP will probably not even load without considerable work.
Taleo and other online resume processing apps used by HR departments require.doc or.docx files so they can do quantative data analysis on keywords on your resume to see if you have a high enough score to interview.
All the big companies do this today not to mention HR wants them editable so they can highlight things and email them back and forth with each other. You still have other scenarios where work is expected to be done on the weekends if you can't muster do more with less in the weekdays which is all too common in 2012.
For one I need to send a resume somewhere and guess which format can be read? Two, even if you do not work in IT unlike most slashdotters, employers expect people to be proficient in office so they do not have to train. This is why they are waiting on Windows 8.
Third in this day and age we are expected to work at home for things we missed during the week. That really brought computers into the home more than hobbiests. Business people who wanted to do work was the top target
"Yeah, but how often do you need to share files in a mixed environment like that"
Are you seriously asking this in a straight face? No man is an island, and especially no corp is an island either. They need to read email from suppliers, customers, vendors, government, and other employees.
Even if you are a small shop with 7 employees who is going to run your books? Email them something in Gnu/Cash or Calc and the accounting firm will reply on the lines of "WTF is this! Please resend in Quickbooks format or excel or I will have to charge you for 2 weeks worth of work extra for a temp to convert it for me. Thank you --- your accountant".
It is a big pain in the ass to use anything else as you are in the business of serving customers. Not playing with office documents. Customers just want to get shit done so they can pay you
If you value security adobe is a financial liability. Switch to foxit reader. You can buy Office 2010 for $249 if you are a business unless you need access or visio or something per computer.
It is stil a good reason as people will be emailing you things and want to be able they render correctly.
Businesses have been on a subscription model for many years. Client access licenses and otehr things have time limits built in or you can pay annually and you get free upgrades too. Like what what they do for WIndows 7 Enteprise licenses that they use to downgrade back down to XP.
It is practically free (as in paid for already) but they keep old around. Smaller businesses have leases and use clouds as well. To them they need monthly costs in line for lines of credit and to make good reports for partners and shareholders.
I admit consumers do not have such demands and probably wont put up with it. I will hold on to Office 2k10 for a long time if MS tries to pull this. Since I am transforming into one of those neophytes who hate change I will be keeping Windows 7 until 2019 as well so I know office will run on that for many many years.
Unfortunately, most people in the real world use an office product to share files and communicate with other people and entities. THerefore, what corps want we buy too do work at home and send resumes, etc. I have a feeling Office 2k13 will bomb as most corpos are going with office 2k10 from 2k3 as they migrate to Windows 7 this year and the next.
You know a decade ago it seemed IE 6 was going to be the future forever as people hated change and websites optimized just for that one browser. Things did change though and finally forced MS to make an IE that doesn't suck and starts behaving like everyone.
Perhaps that can change with Office but right now Open/LibreOffice is not as good and there is no reason to change. Firefox was much quicker in version 1.5 Firebird than IE 6 and had new things like tabs. It still took nearly 4 to 5 years before people who are not geeks gradually switched in force to today where most people left IE.
The same is true with Office. We need something faster and has more functionality than Office before enough people will change. Corporate users are always last to change as some still use IE 6 today and plan to use it for decades more in Citrix virtual machines. Corps will change 5 to7 years after everyone else. Only then will standards win with a file format. The government can do all it wants but no one will take the risk of looking incompetent or losing customers with a messed up doc being emailed.
So geeks, think of things to add or write your own suite that is leaps and bounds better and offiers things no one else has and can run very fast. Then the problem will solve itself in time.
The problem is two-fold. Businesses still view MS as the good guy to set the standards.
Who else should? Second, we tried standards and they never are quite teh same. Examples are the different web browsers and c/c++ compilers. Linux wont even compile in anything but GCC even though they all supposedly following the same ansi standards.
For these two reasons they fear change and actually think they save money from buying software from one company and locking down to one version of everything for 10 years and expect the world to stop to support their own needs.
I guess there is a 3rd problem too and it is middle aged folks who fear change and will fight tooth and nail to preserve the old. XP loyalists, office 2k3 loyalists, etc. Every and I mean every place that tried LibraOffice mentioned on slashdot always ends up with users in pitchforks demanding office and IT people get fired sometimes over it sadly. Never underestimate those who feel threatened by any change. They will gladly pay for Office or don't give a shit since the employer is taking the hit. Even if Office used 100% ODF with no quirks they wont change as Office is familiar.
Yeah no kidding. Here is how I handle passwords from a real professional like myself
$query_login="select * FROM user"; $result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think");//$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login)) { $username=$row["username"]; if ($username==$username1) { echo ""; echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';"; echo ""; exit; } }
Yeah that worked so well a decade ago when the web stopped working for any W3C compliant browser except for IE 6.
Even with Firefox you would get error messages saying Netscape is not supported. With 88% of the web using just that one browser with its own standards the webmasters did not care as they did not wnat to loose revenue.
Sadly this the difference between 1990s and now. No one but slashdotters want to use HTML 5. No one is ashamed for leaving out HTML 5 for IE 7 support as the web now is about making money. Not doing cool new things. This creates inertia as people have little to no incentive to switch to a W3C browser because everyone supports that blue E.
Browser certification wont work. The only thing that will is if people refuse to use crappy products. RIght now IE has been losing marketshare since 2008 month after month and is no longer a majority so I guess that is all we can hope for right now. IE 9/10 are actually modern and start to support W3C again thank fucking god but of course no browser fully does it. Chrome makes proprietary CSS 3 extensions that annoy me.
You have any idea how much it costs to dig up someone elses land, lay permits, pay some union guys $25 an hour for 30 feet of cable per pipe at a time 2,500 miles from east to west coast! That is just one trunk linke. What about every block? What about farmers in Iowa? Even if you wired all of Chicago for free how fat is the pipe leaving it to the rest of the net?
Do you think the telephone monopolies will like this? Cheap bandwidth devaluing the costs of their G4 and other services?? AT&T will scream bloody murder for their constitutional rights to rip people off! Lobbiests will make sure it wont happen so the CEO can keep his bonus.
Yes my last paragraph might sound like trollbait but it is legit problem. Scarcity increases demand and jerks prices up as that is economics 101 and this country is run by big business and not us. Korea might have access to fiber as they are more socialist and do not not mind higher taxes and everyone is tightly all together but it does not fly with everyone else.
Canada is even worse shape! Twice as large as the US with only 10% of the population. We can't leave Canada out as it is a 1st world nation?
1/3 of the US still does not have highspeed internet access or anything above 256k per second. This includes farming communities in the midwest, rockies, and the south. Dialup is still popular in Missouri and Tennessee! These are the users with ancient versions of IE too who are not corporate users. It takes too long to download a browser on 56k not to mention the updates are way fucking too big so they have 100 exploits too on their systems. G3 is starting to come in but it is highly capped and expensive if you are poor which is also a common problem in these areas too.
Not everyone lives in NYC, Kansas city, or Minneapolis where broadband is available and so is Uverse or FIOS as well. In Alaska where I used to live we had cable but it was capped at 2 gigs per month. It sucked goatballs!
Yes, video streaming is supported only if you use the cable companies own service which should frankly be illegal. IT makes sense to put the caps back in. Also the 3rd world is rapidly developing and using cell phones to browse the net. More bandwidth friendly standards would helpt them greatly
What we need is another codec that is streamable, bufferable, and highly compressed like SWFs? Then it can be included. I have a feeling if we do not write one the MPAA or Microsoft will which will be patented and DRMed into an oblivion leaving non Windows users out in the dust and will raise the cost of every computing device to pay for the patents.
I am trying to do a startup that cateers to business users. How many percentage wise support HTML 5... I mean at all today? 5%? They all use IE 8. I plan to ignore IE 6 support as it will be phased out in 2014 and it will be a year anyway before it debuts so these corpos will be spending $$$$ upgrading to which browser? If you guessed IE 8 you are correct.
In 2019 they still will be using IE 8 as it was such a pain to move to IE 6 and are terrified of the prospect of doing it again. The grandparent is making fun of that and sadly I am dead serious when I say long live HTML 4 until 2019!
Sigh... unless someone else besides Google jumps the bandwagon they will probably now stay with IE 8 forever. Also these grandmas at home and not corps will still use that dinosaur too. So as the saying the soup nazi in Senfield says "NO HTML 5 FOR YOU!"
Please I do not care about (col) or any ancient netscape bugs. I do care more about ancient IE still living and ruining the web for everyone else.
Anyone who works with IT but not in IT should do that to get a basic understanding how we are not plumbers with the corporate network being pipes where labor can be done for the cheapest possible price because coding is sooo easy.
Also it is great to write scripts and custom functions too. If it sucks then that is the users problem.
No they are the result of debt and globalization. The feds monetary policy of lowering interest rates for loans benefit those who already have money. Globalization lowers wages.
50 years ago America was a creditor nation who gained interest from Europe and Asia who were rebuilding their factories after World War II. The banks had capital to burn and loaned it out to people to invest in businesses and made loans for homes. Today it is used to put people in credit card and to build factories in China where we owe China and $2 trillion US dollars sit there while the rest of the underemployed all bid to lower their wages and work longer just to keep their jobs.
Technology in general helped in the 1980s and 1990s and did wonderful things. It is the banking cartel and irresponsibility with the government and individuals with debt. Asia is cheap.
When gas gets about $6 a gallon the jobs will return as labor costs wont be saved anymore by shipping material overseas building it and then shipping it back! Infact companies today are starting to do just that as their is no cost savings liek their was 10 years ago and supply chain inefficiencies hurt. Oh, technology can solve supply chain problems too.
It makes me LOL that people still have keygens for Windows XP.
XP is great to run in a VM for testing IT stuff or IE 6 or 7 if you are a web developer. It uses just 384 megs of ram which means I can run several instances with it and a virtualized server as well to test scripts or do training/learning.
As a main OS? Yeah, that would suck. I would need 16 gbs of Ram MIN on my desktop to virtualize 4 servers and 2 clients with Server 2012, Exchange 2013, IIS 8, and Windows 7 clients. I will probably upgrade soon as XP is going to be depreciated next year.
Anything from the internet is untrustworthy unless signed. Should those be marked as malware attacks and blocked too?
Someone stole my Office CD so I had to download a copy of the net and use a fakeKMS. It is perfectly legit as in Trojan and root-kit free but only Avast will not flag it as malware. It is very annoying.
I smell a rat here and would not be surprised if MS had a role in it. As a result I no longer use Microsoft Security Essentials. Ms security team is quite good and just as big as Symantec's. I am sure they share information with each other and if MS flags one keygen they share it by contract. Yes, MS has a vested interest to cut down on piracy as they sell software.
Try avast!? There is a free registration after 30 days which is annoying but it is free forever for basic protection. I stopped using MSE for that reason. Also unless my knowledge is outdated ClamAV is not really an anti virus package!
Just a scanner with no protection from naughty javascripts or from buffer overflows in flash files. Noscript works most of the time but I have encountered infected ads before that Avast halted.
Some CEOs are visionary and good. Example is Jobs and even Bill Gates got it right many times before the internet during the 1980s. The CEO of Fedex is one, Jack Welsh is another, and the founder of JetBlue.I think he is on to something, however the feed and facebook UI... maybe not so much. This decade has brought about bad ones who have a background in finance rather than engineering. It is a disturbing trend as CEOs once upon a time were former visionaries who were experts in their area... not fudging numbers.
Typically business leads IT innovation. Also before last decade IT was always ahead in corporate america compared to consumers. This is the exception of the norm where we laugh at their aging infrastructure today. In the good old days it was CIOs and CEOs who always wanted to upgrade to remain competitive and first brought us many server technology we use today and do things like email, high speed connections, RAID, SQL databases, and other things before we even had internet.
Not to mention companies like to keep things confidential and out of view from competitors. A feed makes no sense. Outlook and MS project has sharing events where team members and bosses can agree to meet and do things together corporate wise and that is all the functionality they need.
Not News Feed for Mega Corp: "Mega Corp just made a bid to supplier Wonka to hurt Maximus Corp" and have Maximum Corp get a heads up for their sales staff etc. Not good...
Most just spent hundreds of thousands migrating to IE 8 and these intranet apps wont run on anything else. If salesforce.com makes html 5 sites their customers simply will ignore them like they are shunning Google Docs now for not supporting IE 6 and 7.
Maybe in 10 years after 2020 will these users leave IE 8. It does not make economic sense to do so especially after they blew all this cash just for IE 8 in 2012!... oh and people are not getting paid to hang out in social networks. They are getting paid to get work done. Traditional apps like photoshop, autocad, quickbooks, excel, outlook, etc enable people to do such that. Uh, work!
I noticed with a colleague running training sessions with VMWARE how much ram XP uses. Practically every.dll file has been rewritten numerous times over and over to fix 300+ exploits. What could have fun in 128 megs of ram requires 384 today! Why? Those dlls were recompiled using later libraries and have half the functionality are workarounds for the various bug fixes and security holes wasting CPU cycles and ram.
IN essence XP has been rewritten 4x! All for free while customers paid for XP once! Tell me how this is economical? Customers do not pay for patching yet whine when they do not get 13 users of constant rewrites for the whole damn OS for free. It is just insecure by design as XP was made in an era of AOL/MSN and dial up. Not what we have today. Even with SP 3 the costs range in the billions for the MS security center and team which shuts down malware.
What if your laptop dies? Will Dell or HP still make 10 year old laptops to make Xp users happy?
This is a serious problem and not a hypothetical one. Win 7 has advantages and being stuck with a browser that soon will be incompatible with the rest of the world plus not run on standard hardware plus having MS abandon it are very good reasons to start planning ahead yesterday.
It is not being evil forcing you to the latest and greatest thing. It is just there is pent up demand to move on due to corporate users whinning and dragging their feet for a half a decade now. Ultrabooks and tablets are coming out now and so is EFI, bluetooth, USB 3, touchscreens, and soon DPI greater than 100 which will break all your apps! It is pathetic that my phone gives me a better browsing experience with full hardware HTML 5 acceleration and DPI greater than 100, all because Chrome and Firefox can't accelerate everthing like my SamSung can due to supporting XP directX 9 from 10 years ago!
I used to have your argument in 2009 and 2010 to slashdotters claiming it is time to move on to Windows 7 but the line needs to be drawn somewhere. Your computer is not like a fridge if it connects to the internet. People will come in with Windows 8 tablets and demand synchronization with SkyDrive pro and Exchange 2013 with their profiles form work. XP/Server 2k3, and Exchange 2003 is not up to this as it is dform a different era.
It costs money to support XP and now it is skyrocketing. Instead of cutitng costs more as a result look to upgrading to save costs. Having your IT guys hack Windows 7 drivers to support XP for a week is a really big flag right there. Eventually Dell wont even ship drivers!
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We are talking about corporate users. Yes the new laptop needs to run XP if that is what the corporate image is and what IT is trained to support. The exsting equipment runs fine so why upgrade wont fly? Machines die. I bet if they still made 8 year old laptops corps would gladly buy them to keep running XP sadly.
I am with you as the grandparent sees no reason to leave XP and hardware support is a big one as it takes more and more effort in pain to just get XP to boot on a new laptop replacing an old one. With no command queing in SATA it will be much slower than the old one too as the failback driver for XP really blows goatballs.
It is time to quit XP even whinning and screaming and crying. Tell the beancounters to screw off as there is no savings keeping it around in 2012 and especially in 2013 when we have EFI machines with touchscreens. XP will probably not even load without considerable work.
Taleo and other online resume processing apps used by HR departments require .doc or .docx files so they can do quantative data analysis on keywords on your resume to see if you have a high enough score to interview.
All the big companies do this today not to mention HR wants them editable so they can highlight things and email them back and forth with each other. You still have other scenarios where work is expected to be done on the weekends if you can't muster do more with less in the weekdays which is all too common in 2012.
For one I need to send a resume somewhere and guess which format can be read? Two, even if you do not work in IT unlike most slashdotters, employers expect people to be proficient in office so they do not have to train. This is why they are waiting on Windows 8.
Third in this day and age we are expected to work at home for things we missed during the week. That really brought computers into the home more than hobbiests. Business people who wanted to do work was the top target
"Yeah, but how often do you need to share files in a mixed environment like that"
Are you seriously asking this in a straight face? No man is an island, and especially no corp is an island either. They need to read email from suppliers, customers, vendors, government, and other employees.
Even if you are a small shop with 7 employees who is going to run your books? Email them something in Gnu/Cash or Calc and the accounting firm will reply on the lines of "WTF is this! Please resend in Quickbooks format or excel or I will have to charge you for 2 weeks worth of work extra for a temp to convert it for me. Thank you --- your accountant".
It is a big pain in the ass to use anything else as you are in the business of serving customers. Not playing with office documents. Customers just want to get shit done so they can pay you
If you value security adobe is a financial liability. Switch to foxit reader. You can buy Office 2010 for $249 if you are a business unless you need access or visio or something per computer.
It is stil a good reason as people will be emailing you things and want to be able they render correctly.
Businesses have been on a subscription model for many years. Client access licenses and otehr things have time limits built in or you can pay annually and you get free upgrades too. Like what what they do for WIndows 7 Enteprise licenses that they use to downgrade back down to XP.
It is practically free (as in paid for already) but they keep old around. Smaller businesses have leases and use clouds as well. To them they need monthly costs in line for lines of credit and to make good reports for partners and shareholders.
I admit consumers do not have such demands and probably wont put up with it. I will hold on to Office 2k10 for a long time if MS tries to pull this. Since I am transforming into one of those neophytes who hate change I will be keeping Windows 7 until 2019 as well so I know office will run on that for many many years.
Unfortunately, most people in the real world use an office product to share files and communicate with other people and entities. THerefore, what corps want we buy too do work at home and send resumes, etc. I have a feeling Office 2k13 will bomb as most corpos are going with office 2k10 from 2k3 as they migrate to Windows 7 this year and the next.
You know a decade ago it seemed IE 6 was going to be the future forever as people hated change and websites optimized just for that one browser. Things did change though and finally forced MS to make an IE that doesn't suck and starts behaving like everyone.
Perhaps that can change with Office but right now Open/LibreOffice is not as good and there is no reason to change. Firefox was much quicker in version 1.5 Firebird than IE 6 and had new things like tabs. It still took nearly 4 to 5 years before people who are not geeks gradually switched in force to today where most people left IE.
The same is true with Office. We need something faster and has more functionality than Office before enough people will change. Corporate users are always last to change as some still use IE 6 today and plan to use it for decades more in Citrix virtual machines. Corps will change 5 to7 years after everyone else. Only then will standards win with a file format. The government can do all it wants but no one will take the risk of looking incompetent or losing customers with a messed up doc being emailed.
So geeks, think of things to add or write your own suite that is leaps and bounds better and offiers things no one else has and can run very fast. Then the problem will solve itself in time.
The problem is two-fold. Businesses still view MS as the good guy to set the standards.
Who else should? Second, we tried standards and they never are quite teh same. Examples are the different web browsers and c/c++ compilers. Linux wont even compile in anything but GCC even though they all supposedly following the same ansi standards.
For these two reasons they fear change and actually think they save money from buying software from one company and locking down to one version of everything for 10 years and expect the world to stop to support their own needs.
I guess there is a 3rd problem too and it is middle aged folks who fear change and will fight tooth and nail to preserve the old. XP loyalists, office 2k3 loyalists, etc. Every and I mean every place that tried LibraOffice mentioned on slashdot always ends up with users in pitchforks demanding office and IT people get fired sometimes over it sadly. Never underestimate those who feel threatened by any change. They will gladly pay for Office or don't give a shit since the employer is taking the hit. Even if Office used 100% ODF with no quirks they wont change as Office is familiar.
Yeah no kidding. Here is how I handle passwords from a real professional like myself
$query_login="select * FROM user"; //$login_check = mysql_num_rows($result_login);
$result_login = mysql_query($query_login) or die("Your passwrod is might be bad I think");
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result_login))
{
$username=$row["username"];
if ($username==$username1)
{
echo "";
echo "window.location.href='login_error.php?rec=qq';";
echo "";
exit;
}
}
Yeah that worked so well a decade ago when the web stopped working for any W3C compliant browser except for IE 6.
Even with Firefox you would get error messages saying Netscape is not supported. With 88% of the web using just that one browser with its own standards the webmasters did not care as they did not wnat to loose revenue.
Sadly this the difference between 1990s and now. No one but slashdotters want to use HTML 5. No one is ashamed for leaving out HTML 5 for IE 7 support as the web now is about making money. Not doing cool new things. This creates inertia as people have little to no incentive to switch to a W3C browser because everyone supports that blue E.
Browser certification wont work. The only thing that will is if people refuse to use crappy products. RIght now IE has been losing marketshare since 2008 month after month and is no longer a majority so I guess that is all we can hope for right now. IE 9/10 are actually modern and start to support W3C again thank fucking god but of course no browser fully does it. Chrome makes proprietary CSS 3 extensions that annoy me.
You have any idea how much it costs to dig up someone elses land, lay permits, pay some union guys $25 an hour for 30 feet of cable per pipe at a time 2,500 miles from east to west coast! That is just one trunk linke. What about every block? What about farmers in Iowa? Even if you wired all of Chicago for free how fat is the pipe leaving it to the rest of the net?
Do you think the telephone monopolies will like this? Cheap bandwidth devaluing the costs of their G4 and other services?? AT&T will scream bloody murder for their constitutional rights to rip people off! Lobbiests will make sure it wont happen so the CEO can keep his bonus.
Yes my last paragraph might sound like trollbait but it is legit problem. Scarcity increases demand and jerks prices up as that is economics 101 and this country is run by big business and not us. Korea might have access to fiber as they are more socialist and do not not mind higher taxes and everyone is tightly all together but it does not fly with everyone else.
Canada is even worse shape! Twice as large as the US with only 10% of the population. We can't leave Canada out as it is a 1st world nation?
Fact check!
1/3 of the US still does not have highspeed internet access or anything above 256k per second. This includes farming communities in the midwest, rockies, and the south. Dialup is still popular in Missouri and Tennessee! These are the users with ancient versions of IE too who are not corporate users. It takes too long to download a browser on 56k not to mention the updates are way fucking too big so they have 100 exploits too on their systems. G3 is starting to come in but it is highly capped and expensive if you are poor which is also a common problem in these areas too.
Not everyone lives in NYC, Kansas city, or Minneapolis where broadband is available and so is Uverse or FIOS as well. In Alaska where I used to live we had cable but it was capped at 2 gigs per month. It sucked goatballs!
Yes, video streaming is supported only if you use the cable companies own service which should frankly be illegal. IT makes sense to put the caps back in. Also the 3rd world is rapidly developing and using cell phones to browse the net. More bandwidth friendly standards would helpt them greatly
What we need is another codec that is streamable, bufferable, and highly compressed like SWFs? Then it can be included. I have a feeling if we do not write one the MPAA or Microsoft will which will be patented and DRMed into an oblivion leaving non Windows users out in the dust and will raise the cost of every computing device to pay for the patents.
Actually the problem is worse.
I am trying to do a startup that cateers to business users. How many percentage wise support HTML 5 ... I mean at all today? 5%? They all use IE 8. I plan to ignore IE 6 support as it will be phased out in 2014 and it will be a year anyway before it debuts so these corpos will be spending $$$$ upgrading to which browser? If you guessed IE 8 you are correct.
In 2019 they still will be using IE 8 as it was such a pain to move to IE 6 and are terrified of the prospect of doing it again. The grandparent is making fun of that and sadly I am dead serious when I say long live HTML 4 until 2019!
Sigh ... unless someone else besides Google jumps the bandwagon they will probably now stay with IE 8 forever. Also these grandmas at home and not corps will still use that dinosaur too. So as the saying the soup nazi in Senfield says "NO HTML 5 FOR YOU!"
Please I do not care about (col) or any ancient netscape bugs. I do care more about ancient IE still living and ruining the web for everyone else.
Anyone who works with IT but not in IT should do that to get a basic understanding how we are not plumbers with the corporate network being pipes where labor can be done for the cheapest possible price because coding is sooo easy.
Also it is great to write scripts and custom functions too. If it sucks then that is the users problem.
No they are the result of debt and globalization. The feds monetary policy of lowering interest rates for loans benefit those who already have money. Globalization lowers wages.
50 years ago America was a creditor nation who gained interest from Europe and Asia who were rebuilding their factories after World War II. The banks had capital to burn and loaned it out to people to invest in businesses and made loans for homes. Today it is used to put people in credit card and to build factories in China where we owe China and $2 trillion US dollars sit there while the rest of the underemployed all bid to lower their wages and work longer just to keep their jobs.
Technology in general helped in the 1980s and 1990s and did wonderful things. It is the banking cartel and irresponsibility with the government and individuals with debt. Asia is cheap.
When gas gets about $6 a gallon the jobs will return as labor costs wont be saved anymore by shipping material overseas building it and then shipping it back! Infact companies today are starting to do just that as their is no cost savings liek their was 10 years ago and supply chain inefficiencies hurt. Oh, technology can solve supply chain problems too.
It makes me LOL that people still have keygens for Windows XP.
XP is great to run in a VM for testing IT stuff or IE 6 or 7 if you are a web developer. It uses just 384 megs of ram which means I can run several instances with it and a virtualized server as well to test scripts or do training/learning.
As a main OS? Yeah, that would suck. I would need 16 gbs of Ram MIN on my desktop to virtualize 4 servers and 2 clients with Server 2012, Exchange 2013, IIS 8, and Windows 7 clients. I will probably upgrade soon as XP is going to be depreciated next year.
Anything from the internet is untrustworthy unless signed. Should those be marked as malware attacks and blocked too?
Someone stole my Office CD so I had to download a copy of the net and use a fakeKMS. It is perfectly legit as in Trojan and root-kit free but only Avast will not flag it as malware. It is very annoying.
I smell a rat here and would not be surprised if MS had a role in it. As a result I no longer use Microsoft Security Essentials. Ms security team is quite good and just as big as Symantec's. I am sure they share information with each other and if MS flags one keygen they share it by contract. Yes, MS has a vested interest to cut down on piracy as they sell software.
Try avast!? There is a free registration after 30 days which is annoying but it is free forever for basic protection. I stopped using MSE for that reason. Also unless my knowledge is outdated ClamAV is not really an anti virus package!
Just a scanner with no protection from naughty javascripts or from buffer overflows in flash files. Noscript works most of the time but I have encountered infected ads before that Avast halted.
Some CEOs are visionary and good. Example is Jobs and even Bill Gates got it right many times before the internet during the 1980s. The CEO of Fedex is one, Jack Welsh is another, and the founder of JetBlue.I think he is on to something, however the feed and facebook UI ... maybe not so much. This decade has brought about bad ones who have a background in finance rather than engineering. It is a disturbing trend as CEOs once upon a time were former visionaries who were experts in their area ... not fudging numbers.
Typically business leads IT innovation. Also before last decade IT was always ahead in corporate america compared to consumers. This is the exception of the norm where we laugh at their aging infrastructure today. In the good old days it was CIOs and CEOs who always wanted to upgrade to remain competitive and first brought us many server technology we use today and do things like email, high speed connections, RAID, SQL databases, and other things before we even had internet.
Nah a news feed with everything public makes soo much more business sense.
I am sure former employees working for competitors will love to see how things are turning out?
Not to mention companies like to keep things confidential and out of view from competitors. A feed makes no sense. Outlook and MS project has sharing events where team members and bosses can agree to meet and do things together corporate wise and that is all the functionality they need.
Not News Feed for Mega Corp: "Mega Corp just made a bid to supplier Wonka to hurt Maximus Corp" and have Maximum Corp get a heads up for their sales staff etc. Not good ...
Most just spent hundreds of thousands migrating to IE 8 and these intranet apps wont run on anything else. If salesforce.com makes html 5 sites their customers simply will ignore them like they are shunning Google Docs now for not supporting IE 6 and 7.
Maybe in 10 years after 2020 will these users leave IE 8. It does not make economic sense to do so especially after they blew all this cash just for IE 8 in 2012! ... oh and people are not getting paid to hang out in social networks. They are getting paid to get work done. Traditional apps like photoshop, autocad, quickbooks, excel, outlook, etc enable people to do such that. Uh, work!
That is just common sense
You have any idea how much patching costs for XP?
I noticed with a colleague running training sessions with VMWARE how much ram XP uses. Practically every .dll file has been rewritten numerous times over and over to fix 300+ exploits. What could have fun in 128 megs of ram requires 384 today! Why? Those dlls were recompiled using later libraries and have half the functionality are workarounds for the various bug fixes and security holes wasting CPU cycles and ram.
IN essence XP has been rewritten 4x! All for free while customers paid for XP once! Tell me how this is economical? Customers do not pay for patching yet whine when they do not get 13 users of constant rewrites for the whole damn OS for free. It is just insecure by design as XP was made in an era of AOL/MSN and dial up. Not what we have today. Even with SP 3 the costs range in the billions for the MS security center and team which shuts down malware.
What if your laptop dies? Will Dell or HP still make 10 year old laptops to make Xp users happy?
This is a serious problem and not a hypothetical one. Win 7 has advantages and being stuck with a browser that soon will be incompatible with the rest of the world plus not run on standard hardware plus having MS abandon it are very good reasons to start planning ahead yesterday.
It is not being evil forcing you to the latest and greatest thing. It is just there is pent up demand to move on due to corporate users whinning and dragging their feet for a half a decade now. Ultrabooks and tablets are coming out now and so is EFI, bluetooth, USB 3, touchscreens, and soon DPI greater than 100 which will break all your apps! It is pathetic that my phone gives me a better browsing experience with full hardware HTML 5 acceleration and DPI greater than 100, all because Chrome and Firefox can't accelerate everthing like my SamSung can due to supporting XP directX 9 from 10 years ago!
I used to have your argument in 2009 and 2010 to slashdotters claiming it is time to move on to Windows 7 but the line needs to be drawn somewhere. Your computer is not like a fridge if it connects to the internet. People will come in with Windows 8 tablets and demand synchronization with SkyDrive pro and Exchange 2013 with their profiles form work. XP/Server 2k3, and Exchange 2003 is not up to this as it is dform a different era.
It costs money to support XP and now it is skyrocketing. Instead of cutitng costs more as a result look to upgrading to save costs. Having your IT guys hack Windows 7 drivers to support XP for a week is a really big flag right there. Eventually Dell wont even ship drivers!