Windows 98/Me just too old
It looks like any more patches for the old creeking Window OS's has now been dropped. Though being 8 years old they reckon about 2/3% of PC's behind a corporate firewall are still running one of the unsupported OS's for one reason or another. If you are one of these people then you are suggested to upgrade. Though it makes me think who is running it out there and is it really because you have a program which can't be replaced.
Via [Internet News]
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Can't be replaced or supported on another platform is more like it. Sometimes, in certain industries there are only 1 or 2 vendors that'll make a software package that will do what you need, on a scale you'd need it to run on.
And if those vendors say no, we're not supporting OS XYZ, then you don't upgrade if you want to continue to get support.
Also, it takes a lot of coin to just go out and upgrade an enterprise. Especially when you're dealing with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of machines that need an upgrade all at the same time.
The cost of the machines - and the manpower to upgrade them can rack up quite quickly.
And if those vendors say no, we're not supporting OS XYZ, then you don't upgrade if you want to continue to get support.
Also, it takes a lot of coin to just go out and upgrade an enterprise. Especially when you're dealing with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of machines that need an upgrade all at the same time.
The cost of the machines - and the manpower to upgrade them can rack up quite quickly.
"Also, it takes a lot of coin to just go out and upgrade an enterprise" - It's not just applicable to "Enterprise", economies of scale apply here. An "Enterprise" with hundreds of thousands of machines has a far bigger budget than an SME with tens of machines. At the end of the day if Jane the receptionist is taking bookings and sending/receiving emails on legacy software running on an old machine with no problems some businesses won't see the need to update it, particularly smaller businesses without a solid IT infrastructure or anyone in charge of it.
