Posts by Too old for this sh*t 17 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2024
I only now have a single client on Exchange, they are happy to take the risks and remain on that version for as long as the clients support it. Others have migrated to imap already rather than cough up per month
Before I get downvoted, it's their decision, I offered the imap option and that is still under review as thre's only a couple of users that use shared calendars / contacts
I had an IFA client that was brought out by a much bigger company. The outgoing client had a pretty good DR plan in place which I helped develop and tested over the years and often did mock testing. However the incoming company had DR on a whole different level. They actually had a separate office in a different location, fully kitted out and I mean everything, right down to a kitchen. It was just sitting there unused. They tested it by sending staff over, just take milk, coffee and lunch.
The amount of money that room must be costing the company 'just in case' must have been eye watering
Whilst I hate the settings element of W11, eg, the poor logic of the networking section etc, once the context menu reg fix is applied and the common shortcuts added to the taskbar, users rarely notice the difference. They spend little time in the start menu or do anything other than emails / office apps / file explorer / chrome so a slow upgrade hasn't been too much of a problem.
Governments around the world need to step in and force MS to drop the restrictions else (as the article says) there will be masses of unnecessary WEEE.
I have been upgrading via rufus just to see what happens, but I suspect the better solution will be to image, install a free-for-commercial-use hypervisor and restore the image to a VM. That way it still complies with the licensing terms and run with that until the end of the life of the PC
The next 12 months are not an ideal time to be forced into replacing perfectly functioning computers as business money is tight. I have started to slowly roll out new PCs to clients but it's a dribble and the prices are noticeably going up.
I'm seriously tempted to suggest imaging the old-but-decent PC, spin up a hyperV gen2 then upgrade that to W11. Then get the end user to live in a vm. Most don't need sound or USB access but might be enough to carry on until the PC expires naturally - especially on their AiO PCS which cost a bomb to have got in the first place.
Sounds like the utter disaster that Networking has become. I really struggle to find anything, but in the old days, I could walk a user remotely through the screens without even being in front of a PC, now I get as far as open networking settings, and the settings I want to change could be anywhere. There's no logic to it.
And MS wonders why people are not moving to 11
I have a client that runs a £100k CNC machine, it needs netbeui to get the files onto it so still runs XP. Another client runs an ancient vinyl cutter signwriting machine which requires W98
In both cases, it's considerably expensive to replace the equipment so stand alone computers still do the job just fine
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