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If it were that simple, it would have happened already. There are still a lot of businesses that, unfortunately, depend very heavily on Windows XP for their on
by Pacabel 13y ago
If it were that simple, it would have happened already.
There are still a lot of businesses that, unfortunately, depend very heavily on Windows XP for their ongoing operation. The cost associated with switching may far, far exceed any benefit it could bring.
We aren't talking about a couple of Ruby on Rails developers sitting in a cafe using MacBooks. We're talking about global organizations with tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of computers. We're talking about applications that will only run properly on Windows XP. We're talking about astronomical costs that will bring only comparatively minor gain. That's the kind of situation that does not lead to change.
- andrewvc 13y agoNot to mention the millions of small mom and pop shops running that thing. XP's retirement isn't even on their radar.
- ceejayoz 13y agoThey've had a decade to plan an implement upgrades.
- Pacabel 13y agoIt's the ratio between the costs and the benefits that matters, not how long people have had the option of moving away from Windows XP.
- pwthornton 13y agoIf you wrote applications that were heavily dependent on XP and couldn't either run on Windows 7 or easily be tweaked to run on it, this is your problem. That's bad programming. That's bad management. To expect MS to bail out global corporations who write crappy software is crazy. If you have software in 2014 that requires Windows XP and/or IE 6, you need to look at your life and look at your choices. There is so much bad IT management and procurement at large corporations, and that's the root cause of a lot of the XP consternation from certain companies.