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| Thread ID: 135513 | 2013-11-12 02:18:00 | When a business wants to move on from XP what's the next step..? | Webdevguy (17166) | PC World Chat |
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| 1359553 | 2013-11-12 02:18:00 | For the 400,000 people and businesses yet to move on from XP.. what to consider when moving on.. www.computerworld.co.nz other_approach/ |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1359554 | 2013-11-12 02:36:00 | Consider upgrading their devices more than once a decade? :P | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1359555 | 2013-11-12 02:39:00 | Consider upgrading their devices more than once a decade? :P This. :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1359556 | 2013-11-12 02:52:00 | Consider upgrading their devices more than once a decade? :P Still laughing ;) |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1359557 | 2013-11-12 03:52:00 | Consider upgrading their devices more than once a decade? :P The sad thing is that its true. XP PC's, used in small companies, are often so slow & crappified they are barely usable (not an exaggeration) when I get called in to look at them. Yet their staff are expected to use these PC's every day, usually that persons job revolves around the old , extremly slow, laggy, XP PC. Im amazed that management dont see a serious issue with barely working PC's . Staff are expected to just keep on trucking, being hindered at every step by the state of the PC. Then you have the issue that these 2- 5 pc's are so slow & crappified that they all really need a lot of work to get them all up to scratch (ie usable speed) There is no way the small company is going to pay for the job to be done properly, or pay for new PC's all round. You now also have the issue that their CAD/Accounting/shop software they use, being sooo old, WILL NOT work in Win7 or Win8 (esp not 64bit). It also needs to be upgraded at a huge expense. :banana |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1359558 | 2013-11-12 04:15:00 | The sad thing is that its true. XP PC's, used in small companies, are often so slow & crappified they are barely usable (not an exaggeration) when I get called in to look at them. Yet their staff are expected to use these PC's every day, usually that persons job revolves around the old , extremly slow, laggy, XP PC. Im amazed that management dont see a serious issue with barely working PC's . Staff are expected to just keep on trucking, being hindered at every step by the state of the PC. Then you have the issue that these 2- 5 pc's are so slow & crappified that they all really need a lot of work to get them all up to scratch (ie usable speed) There is no way the small company is going to pay for the job to be done properly, or pay for new PC's all round. You now also have the issue that their CAD/Accounting/shop software they use, being sooo old, WILL NOT work in Win7 or Win8 (esp not 64bit). It also needs to be upgraded at a huge expense. :banana Yeah see it all the time as well, :( Its depressing having to "put a patch on & only half fix it" to try and get them going to something reasonable - knowing very well what SHOULD be done for longer term usage and what the person actually is prepared to pay for are two different things. Sometimes you really wish they would fall over and NEED to be fixed correctly. :) Know about the software as well, one place I do work for, all their software thats worked OK since XP first came out wont work even on W7, to replace it its estimated at over 10K for one set of programs ( multi user licences) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1359559 | 2013-11-12 04:15:00 | Another side of it is IT departments that won't (or don't have the budget to) move on until; A. They have to B. The new solution had been tested & approved and discussed at various meetings for at least 6 months C. the hardware starts to fail and the replacements no longer run the old OS An example of this is my work Laptop, it's not that bad spec wise. It's an i5 (older one but still pretty good) with 4Gb of RAM, came with windows 7 pre-installed. What's the first thing that happens to it? windows 7 is removed and the standardised company image of windows XP with IE6 is installed. At one point I got an upgrade to IE8, but only because one of our clients software packages I need to access wouldn't work properly. It takes so long to start up I never bother to shut it down, and our network crawls like a dog so I spend a lot of time watching hourglasses or little spinning wheels and reading PCWorld on my tablet while waiting. But our company is happy with it as is, no push to improve. They see it as a huge cost with little to be gained productivity wise to upgrade and perhaps they have a point. While it would certainly be nice to have it all work more smoothly and faster that won't magically bring more work or contracts in the door to pay for the upgrade. Still I hear stories that we are getting more bandwidth if someone can sort out the contract, fingers crossed. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1359560 | 2013-11-12 04:22:00 | windows 7 is removed and the standardised company image of windows XP with IE6 is installed. Saw that the other day when the guy from Telstra ( downer) turned up here, His laptop had W7 originally, but he was running XP. I made the comment " I see Downer gave you got the latest and greatest on ya lappy" He just went "yeah - but they supply it" in a sarcastic tone -- We laughed :D | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1359561 | 2013-11-12 05:33:00 | I use Windows 7 and find that almost all my old software runs on it. Some is very old like "Professional File" Data base running in DOS Box. I don't like Windows 8, I got a new computer with W8 but removed it in favour of W7. As for XP, if people keep it clean I see no reason to change. If it does the job, keep it. Lack of support from Microsoft is not an issue. The only thing I ever update is the Anti Virus, Crap Cleaner. | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1359562 | 2013-11-12 06:43:00 | 32bit windows 7 provides amazing compatibility support for old apps. something has to be seriously broken for it not to run. | Mirddes (10) | ||
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