On Friday 30 June 2017 03:59:59 William Oliver wrote: > The thing that amazes me about the Window and Mac worlds is that people > never seem to wipe their boxes. I know people who run their machines > for four or five years without ever doing a clean reinstall. I worked > at a place that ran Windows XP well beyond its out of service date -- > going as far as buying separate service contracts to keep it going. > > For *eight* years, as far as I know, the desktop box in my office never > had its disk wiped. Now, sure, I only used it for very limited stuff, > but still, the entire organization -- hundreds and hundreds of machines > -- was like that. > [snip lots of unsurprising stuff] I could run this one as welcome to the real world. I'm not the most nieve of SysOps nor am I the most switched on. However, I still have a number of WinXP machines running – through necessity. We even had Win3.11WfW running well past Y2K because we had to. The programs we were running were not compatible with Win95. As for wiping Windows boxes on a regular basis, I would be surprised if 10% of people did this. There is no way that I would be able to resource such a project. Having to wipe and reinstall because Windows is stuffed again happens far too often in my opinion. -- Gary Stainburn Group I.T. Manager Ringways Garages http://www.ringways.co.uk https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/garys-march-march _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
