Comment A lot of corporate work is routine. (Score 1) 156
"... no longer secure..."
OpenBSD is secure because it was examined carefully for vulnerabilities. Microsoft makes more money if there are vulnerabilities, and if its older products are considered likely to be insecure.
"... when it no longer boots..."
We have corporate users who do the same thing every day on computers installed in 2004. They don't want change.
"... when none of the software you use will still run on the old OS"
Yes, you and I. But some corporate users do specialized corporate work on software that ran under DOS. It does what they want. There is little call for change.
"... when you have to employ tech staff with out-of-date skills..."
The Windows command line windows are mostly just the old DOS. There is nothing out-of-date.
"... when the software is a dead do-do that nobody wants to touch..."
Lots of people do lots of things that have remained stable for decades.
"Sorry, but everything has an end-of-life."
I talked to a guy who makes a lot of money per hour maintaining Cobol programs on old mainframes. Yes, end of life. But possibly decades from now.
"When you can't log into your damn bank because it's said that IE6 is too old..."
The browsers are updated frequently, of course. And computers connected only to an internal network have no outside internet vulnerabilities, if there are no DVD drives. I talked to a woman who worked at Tektronix who could not send an email from her work computer because there was no outside access.
Should employees be allowed to explore the internet during lunch breaks? Sure, on a separate network in the lunch room.
I have the latest hardware and software, a 24-port gigabit switch, and multiple 3 Terabyte RAID drives. But that's because I make a lot more techological demands than the average person.
I don't feel conflict of interest. Unfortunately, conflict of interest is a big factor in the lives of many people who are involved with computer technology. Their minds are persuaded by what would make them more money.
OpenBSD is secure because it was examined carefully for vulnerabilities. Microsoft makes more money if there are vulnerabilities, and if its older products are considered likely to be insecure.
"... when it no longer boots..."
We have corporate users who do the same thing every day on computers installed in 2004. They don't want change.
"... when none of the software you use will still run on the old OS"
Yes, you and I. But some corporate users do specialized corporate work on software that ran under DOS. It does what they want. There is little call for change.
"... when you have to employ tech staff with out-of-date skills..."
The Windows command line windows are mostly just the old DOS. There is nothing out-of-date.
"... when the software is a dead do-do that nobody wants to touch..."
Lots of people do lots of things that have remained stable for decades.
"Sorry, but everything has an end-of-life."
I talked to a guy who makes a lot of money per hour maintaining Cobol programs on old mainframes. Yes, end of life. But possibly decades from now.
"When you can't log into your damn bank because it's said that IE6 is too old..."
The browsers are updated frequently, of course. And computers connected only to an internal network have no outside internet vulnerabilities, if there are no DVD drives. I talked to a woman who worked at Tektronix who could not send an email from her work computer because there was no outside access.
Should employees be allowed to explore the internet during lunch breaks? Sure, on a separate network in the lunch room.
I have the latest hardware and software, a 24-port gigabit switch, and multiple 3 Terabyte RAID drives. But that's because I make a lot more techological demands than the average person.
I don't feel conflict of interest. Unfortunately, conflict of interest is a big factor in the lives of many people who are involved with computer technology. Their minds are persuaded by what would make them more money.