On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:40:30AM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > However, I still have a number of WinXP machines running – through > necessity. I'm so sorry for you. I've gotten rid of all of them at my clients, through a mixture of software/hardware upgrades, or in the absolute worst cases running them as VMs on host systems so I can monitor and restrict any external connections. > As for wiping Windows boxes on a regular basis, I would be surprised > if 10% of people did this. Concur; I regularly have client workstations that run for 5-7 years from the day we put them in service without ever reloading the OS--be it Windows, OS X, or Linux. Of course, I take care of them... > There is no way that I would be able to resource such a project. There is, but typically not for any office with fewer than, say, 100 workstations and with non-standard hardware platforms. If you've the luxury of using standardized hardware platforms, and enough installations to make it worthwhile, you can create image libraries for deployment. But because of the management/administrative overhead of creating, inventorying and updating stored images, it's just not worth the trouble for most SMBs. > Having to wipe and reinstall because Windows is stuffed again > happens far too often in my opinion. Eh. Not so much since Win7, provided the machine is properly managed--and that means stomping on users who never meet a download they didn't like, don't play in our (admin) sandbox, etc. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
