Be careful for what you wish for -- at the end of the Roman Empire were several centuries of Nasty Viscious relative anarchy( "The Middle Ages"), no disease control whatsoever (The Black Death), almost no progress in any Human endeavour, total starvation etc etc. It took a long while until around 1500 for Europe to start progressing again and even then a lot of the time was spent on various nasty religious wars - the Inquisition, Protestants vs Catholics etc etc etc.
It amazes me how people are so eager to snipe at successful companies --perhaps that's why the general level of population is sliding backwards into rather mindless mediocrity and we aren't progressing forwards as a species in the way we should be doing.
Linux - while great for servers (and here only TWO companies really make up the bulk -- SUSE/NOVELL and RED HAT) isn't appropriate for corpoerate desktop users - simply due to the almost infinite numbers of different distros around -- imagine maintaining that lot !!!
Destructive criticism is easy -- but Constructive criticism is much harder -- all those ms haters please suggest VIABLE alternatives that will work in large offices / corporate enterprises. As a Home user nobody cares - you are free to use whatever you want -- even if you feel so inclined just enter your commands in Machine code -- but that's no good for running any sort of business.
I think most people given the choice of the relative stability and prosperity of the Roman Empire in its heyday would rather have lived then than during most of the so called Middle ages (from about 800 - 1400).
Cheers
jimbo
"all those ms haters please suggest VIABLE alternatives that will work in large offices / corporate enterprises"
I was shocked to see in a leading hospital in the US - XP being the standard operating system used. This was as of June. I then went to a doctor's office visit last week- July 6th, and found XP being used there as well.
Hi there.
Actually you don't need to worry -- most of those old XP systems are usually running specialized applications and very specialized hardware. A lot of Laboratory and Engineering equipment - particularly measuring devices such as Gas analysers etc still interface with XP. This equipment is VERY expensive to replace - and provided it does the job there's absolutely no reason to upgrade it.
I still have some old Vinyl recording hardware which needs XP to create and cut the disks -- the original manufacturer has long since disappeared.
While the LAST application that I'm using with W7 now works fine on W8.1 my XP system will outlast W7 by a long time (running as a VM of course).
For simple "Office things" like Doctors notes or even Ms office itself there's no reason why one needs to upgrade in a large doctors surgery until you have to. The data can easily be transmitted / retrieved from the Group practice's server or Hospitals DB net (or equivalent).
I'd much rather my doctor / hospital gets the most modern drugs / medical equipment before spending money on computer upgrades which aren't actually necessary at this time. Of course once the money comes in THEN upgrade. XP is QUITE SAFE if it's isolated from the external internet itself. There's no problem making an Internet query and having the query returned via the server so no direct Internet connection.
Cheers
jimbo
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