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"Microsoft: Windows XP costs businesses five times more than Windows 7"
Reply to: by SamDu
While the results of the study may be accurate (I’m not inclined to believe them), this bit:
“Costs tend to soar when older products are used beyond their intended life cycle,”
is a complete crock of crap. The “intended life cycle” of an OS is completely arbitrary. And unless the OS company has built in some sort of kill switch, it’s ridiculous to think that magically, on that arbitrary date when the OS has passed its “intended life cycle,” that costs to maintain it suddenly skyrocket. Most business doesn’t move unless it’s forced to. There’s a reason for that. It’s cheaper and safer to keep using something that works until it doesn’t. That means the OS and the software running on it. It’s why so many companies take so long to upgrade their Windows installations and their Office installations. And if you’re not upgrading the software on the OS, chances are that the OS itself won’t suddenly become an issue.
Reply to: by SamDu
While the results of the study may be accurate (I’m not inclined to believe them), this bit:
“Costs tend to soar when older products are used beyond their intended life cycle,”
is a complete crock of crap. The “intended life cycle” of an OS is completely arbitrary. And unless the OS company has built in some sort of kill switch, it’s ridiculous to think that magically, on that arbitrary date when the OS has passed its “intended life cycle,” that costs to maintain it suddenly skyrocket. Most business doesn’t move unless it’s forced to. There’s a reason for that. It’s cheaper and safer to keep using something that works until it doesn’t. That means the OS and the software running on it. It’s why so many companies take so long to upgrade their Windows installations and their Office installations. And if you’re not upgrading the software on the OS, chances are that the OS itself won’t suddenly become an issue.