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Subject: Escape from Windows XP

banbury 4.05.14 - 10:08pm
the bizarre thing is, they believe the deal will actually save them money. Their reason behind that is unsurprisingly rather complicated lol The computeractive magazine advised them that they would have been better off putting the money towards upgrading, but of course the government knows best. * +

banbury 4.05.14 - 10:13pm
paid updates for xp are also available to the public. But even with them its still far less secure online than windows 7 or 8 so its just a no brainer all around lol. XP was a great operating system, of that can be no doubt, but its had its day and its not fit for the modern world. You cant polish a turd after all lol * +

banbury 4.05.14 - 10:22pm
the crazy thing is, you would actually be safer going online with windows 98 today than XP cos nobody targets the 9x operating systems today lol * +

spartan2 5.05.14 - 01:33am
The problem with upgrading is that Microsoft will only sell them Windows 8 and all the new office programs. Which frankly, would mean that every single department would need everybody retrained and that would also cost gazillions as it's a government job.

They should have moved to windows 7 soon as it came out but it came out at the start of a bad recession. So maybe if they hold out until the next version of windows next year that isn't some sort of user disaster 8 was, they will then adopt that.

No matter what they do, it's gonna be blood expensive. * +

banbury 5.05.14 - 01:56am
yes extended support for win 7 lasts untill 2020. but like you say microsoft will only want to sell them win 8 * +

spartan2 5.05.14 - 02:38am
Well even 2020 isn't that far away by the time win 7 were installed everywhere it would only have a shelf life of 4-5 years. The best time to buy is when a new version arrives.

If the government is smart and they aren't really they will use the 12 months as a buffer to pick up windows 9 or whatever it'll be called in a year * +

banbury 5.05.14 - 06:38am
the government said it was a 12 months breathing space but what will happen after that is anyones guess lol The international space station was still using windows xp only a few months ago, but they contracted a virus when an astronaut brought an infected usb flash drive aboard. They now use linux, apparently. I suspect a lot of government computers are now getting quite old so maybe they will just buy new hardware, but I suspect its there antiquated software thats the biggest problem that probably only works properly on windows xp. * +

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