glennda Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 Sorry... how many years have we all known XP support was going? We have had Windows 7 which has been pretty good for years too, ok it is no XP. There has been plenty of time to organise upgrading. It is a ridiculous situation But as others have said - during times of cuts what has been the priority for the NHS - upgrading from XP or funding saving lives? It is probably cheaper for the gov to pay 5.5m a year than it is to buy up to date licenses!
GREED Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 Agreed to a point. However... this means that they have machines that are ancient or when they buy new machines they are deliberately putting XP on there... and given the length of time since XP was essentially no longer on sale surely just about every PC has been changed since XP stopped being available... Regardless, has no one in government stopped and thought... wait ignore I said that, I already know the answer!!! :/
Arthur Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 Memory lane: before everyone loved Windows XP, they hated it « Ars Technica It wasn't meant to be this way. Windows XP, now no longer supported, wasn't meant to be popular. For all its popularity and sustained usage, people seem to have forgotten something important about it: it sucked.
SYNACK Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 But as others have said - during times of cuts what has been the priority for the NHS - upgrading from XP or funding saving lives? It is probably cheaper for the gov to pay 5.5m a year than it is to buy up to date licenses! I'm sure they use imaging and such along with ongoing support so it is highly likely that they are under a hug volume liscence anyway. It is just the usual shortsightedness that seems to accompany big installations and government.
sonofsanta Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 Memory lane: before everyone loved Windows XP, they hated it « Ars Technica Great article, as you'd expect from Ars. I liked their companion piece as well: Looking at the Web with Internet Explorer 6, one last time | Ars Technica Will anyone mourn the passing of IE6? Office 2003, yes, XP, apparently, but IE6...? Nah
witch Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 It has just occurred to me that I got into this business at the same time as XP started. Now it has finished...is the universe trying to tell me something?
GREED Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 It has just occurred to me that I got into this business at the same time as XP started. Now it has finished...is the universe trying to tell me something? Same here... bugger...
Devontechie Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 Same here... bugger... It has just occurred to me that I got into this business at the same time as XP started. Now it has finished...is the universe trying to tell me something? Wish I could say the same. I remember using windows 95! So a few years before XP!
SYNACK Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 It has just occurred to me that I got into this business at the same time as XP started. Now it has finished...is the universe trying to tell me something? You young people and your assumptions, I had the displeasure of being paid to support MacOS and Windows 98, of course I was just starting High school It has been too long that the IT community has been allowed to sit idle and the world has suffered for it, let us hope that corporate and school IT will finally be pried away from the OS as a white ware appliance model and actually keep pace.
Arthur Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 let us hope that corporate and school IT will finally be pried away from the OS as a whiteware appliance model and actually keep pace. In the future, when most applications are web-based, we won't have to worry about old OSs. Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks « Computer Weekly
unixman_again Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 Wish I could say the same. I remember using windows 95! So a few years before XP! When I started, the only windows we had, were the ones in the wall. I did a fair swag of my early work using punched cards and something called "time sharing", where you could key in your programs directly.
tmcd35 Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 When I started, the only windows we had, were the ones in the wall. I did a fair swag of my early work using punched cards and something called "time sharing", where you could key in your programs directly. It's sad, but if I tried to explain how my old Speccy or CPC worked to the current smartphone bashing generation I'm sure they'd look at me in the same way I'd look at you after reading that sentance - Man you're like well old!!! I've read about punchcards in the history books...
SYNACK Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 In the future, when most applications are web-based, we won't have to worry about old OSs. Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks « Computer Weekly Oh there is still an OS, at least a local presentation layer which is a browser feature creeping its way into being a full - dirty word alert - Operating System but Google will never admit this as it is key to keeping their BS 'cloud' intact. Unfourtunatly the honest are probably going to be punished for not being 'all cloud all the time' but the browser has been trying to be a bastardized OS for about a decade now and is starting to manage it. Amusingly the chromebooks struggle more with some web content than their Windows and Linux counterparts despite a hardware advantage in some cases so work that one out. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/eaD4RJexUW4/fLkC5Nbq87gJ Nothing is new it just has a better marketing budget, probably at the expense of engineering -> "lazy engineers never did anything but cost the company money and make the product that provides all of our incomes' - Marketing Department.
gshaw Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 In the future, when most applications are web-based, we won't have to worry about old OSs. Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks « Computer Weekly I hope for the users that the Citrix setup is more reliable than it was when I worked there many moons ago
witch Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 When I joined my first school, it was Windows 98 with a smattering of NT so I did support all that before I migrated the lot to XP.
Trapper Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 When I stared school there were Acorn's everywhere. I still use a RasPi with RISC OS on to our reception PowerPoint - just 'cos I can. My admin machines are on Windows 7 along with staff laptops. Class Room desktops are XP until the summer. I was going to migrate them next week during Easter but due to three issues: 1) 25% of the curric software is 16 bit only and will not work. The newest was © 1999! Staff use this in lesson plans, so I have to wait for a new academic year to get rid of it. 2) It's assessment term after Easter and apparently a new "system" will cause the teachers so much "extra stress" 3) To avoid this "extra stress" it's better to do such a large change during the summer. Apparently teachers deal better with new things at the start of a new academic year. And they are supposed to be educated, resourceful people
FN-GM Posted April 11, 2014 Posted April 11, 2014 When I stared school there were Acorn's everywhere. I still use a RasPi with RISC OS on to our reception PowerPoint - just 'cos I can. My admin machines are on Windows 7 along with staff laptops. Class Room desktops are XP until the summer. I was going to migrate them next week during Easter but due to three issues: 1) 25% of the curric software is 16 bit only and will not work. The newest was © 1999! Staff use this in lesson plans, so I have to wait for a new academic year to get rid of it. 2) It's assessment term after Easter and apparently a new "system" will cause the teachers so much "extra stress" 3) To avoid this "extra stress" it's better to do such a large change during the summer. Apparently teachers deal better with new things at the start of a new academic year. And they are supposed to be educated, resourceful people @Trapper 16-bit applications will run on 32 bit Windows 7.
Arthur Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 What's going on in Ireland? Windows XP use rises among Irish businesses According to Statcounter, 9.2% of Irish PCs used Windows XP in June, up from 8.7% in April. Globally, 16% of desktop and laptop PCs continue to use the outdated operating system, although the figure is declining by about 0.5% each month.
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