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#31 TEX4S

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 03:32

View PostMike Frett, on 28 January 2012 - 09:36, said:

So what if it's unsupported. When your warrantee runs out on your car, do you stop using it because it's unsupported?. Tired of people feeding this crap to the users, if something is working just fine and you like it, then you should use it no matter what fear mongers say.

There are Hospitals that still use DOS. You know why? It's not because it's supported or unsupported; they use it because it's working just fine. No reason whatsoever to spend money on garbage you don't need just because Mr. Tech Know-it-all say's you do.

Doing what people tell you to do is just another form of slavery.

LOL - another form of slavery ? WOW - you really did some sensationalism on that, huh ?

When our servers run out of warranty - they are gradually replaced. My stuff never makes it to end of warranty -

AND YES - I make sure the lease on my cars last as long as the warranty - then its gone - I dont want to get stuck with some giant maintenance bill.

I think you'll find there are other companies who act the same way. We use IBM/Lenovo for everything - all of it has a next day repair policy & every 4 years everything is replaced


Just wondering - when I tell a tech we need service on a computer & tell him what time I will be available the next day, does that make me the IT equivalent of a plantation owner ?


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Posted 09 February 2012 - 03:38

View Postremixedcat, on 08 February 2012 - 05:31, said:

what's stupid and fail and all kinda facepalm is my school (at the time) bought new dells with xp on them and wiped it and put windows 2000 on them!

then they wanted new copies of xp put back on those same machines later!

We are doing the exact same thing. The 150 ThinkPads we purchased came with Win7 - we wiped them and installed XP on them. Now, we are testing all of our software for Win7 compatibility because my boss is ready to make the switch.

We already had a volume license so moving to XP didnt incur any licensing fees - but there was a ton of man hours spent on it - and there will be a ton more when we move to 7 in April. That will be a lousy month for me :wacko:

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 03:42

Normal software development progress, nothing to see here folks, move along.

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 04:25

View PostTEX4S, on 09 February 2012 - 03:38, said:

We are doing the exact same thing. The 150 ThinkPads we purchased came with Win7 - we wiped them and installed XP on them. Now, we are testing all of our software for Win7 compatibility because my boss is ready to make the switch.

We already had a volume license so moving to XP didnt incur any licensing fees - but there was a ton of man hours spent on it - and there will be a ton more when we move to 7 in April. That will be a lousy month for me :wacko:

ouch... and april is a lousy month in general....

#35 Kyle A

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 04:32

Crap... time to upgrade to Windows XP.

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 04:51

View PostThe_Decryptor, on 09 February 2012 - 03:02, said:

How so? It isn't any extra work to support XP.

Maybe not, but it would be a huge benefactor into moving folks off of XP.

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 04:53

I think I'll install Windows 2000 in VMWare and play around with it a bit.

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Posted 09 February 2012 - 05:42

View PostAzies, on 09 February 2012 - 04:53, said:

I think I'll install Windows 2000 in VMWare and play around with it a bit.
I did that about a year ago and it really was interesting to see the changes between 2000 and 7 (95 also). :)