Windows 8

[xosniper]

Remember when Windows 98 came out and gaming was awesome?

 

[CrazyKiller]

I understand that. But I have asked several CIO / SVP at major institutions of late (280,000, 250,000, 60,000 employees each) and none of them are even considering moving away from XP yet. It is not in their plans. They are large enough to demand support still.

Yet XP has as many holes as Swiss cheese. Yet XP fails to take advantage of the latest encryption technology, the latest filesystem enhancements, the latest Microsoft software suites, the latest hardware. See a pattern there?

XP was great for it's time and was leaps and bounds over Windows 98/98 Second Edition and of course, Millenium Edition. For a business, especially a large business, to base it's entire information technology infrastructure off an outdated, insecure, and less stable platform is a pretty big error on their behalf.

You cannot tell me that upgrading to Windows 7 is not a cost-effective and efficient upgrade path. There is virtually no software on the market that is exclusive to XP that cannot be upgraded to Windows 7 compatible software.

It's a case of laziness, nothing more. I'll point to that fact when one of those companies have a security breach attributed to the outdated Windows XP platform that would not have happened with Windows 7.

And I hope to god they are not using Windows Server 2000 too.

As of right now Surface is being tageted for commercial application, so 10k is pretty reasonable. Something consumer grade will come down the pipe eventually.

I will be honest, if I had a spare $10,000 sitting somewhere I would buy myself a Surface for my house. I could actually put it to good use. I tried to get my last employer to buy one for the datacenter NOC but they didn't bite.

 

[AngelsKing]

Remember when Windows 98 came out and gaming was awesome?

i know right lol im still on windows xp 64bit and i have a computer somewhere in this house that still has 98 on it