"Based on our initial analysis (from internal recommendations and analysis by Gartner Group), there appears to be no compelling technical or business case for upgrading to these new Microsoft products," according to the memo from Daniel Mintz, DOT Chief Information Officer.
In fact, there are a number of reasons for not upgrading, Mintz said, including the hardware/software/services costs of upgrading; backward compatibility problems with Office 2007, specifically Word (I'm guessing he's referring to the new XML file formats here, but not sure); internal funding limitations; and a pending DOT headquarters move.
Surely deciding not to upgrade is not the same as "banning"?
XML file formats for Word are not new in Office/Word 2007. They have been there for a long time now.
Because I once worked for a company that delayed upgrading to windows95 for several years and then delayed upgrading to w2k for several years (they skipped windows98), delayed upgrading to XP until 2005/6!Why?
Yeah - we only upgraded to SP2 early last year if I recall correctly and have a moratorium on Vista. But we're an indigenous Irish company. Mind you our IT department are the usual story - lots of procedures and lots of missing the bigger picture - e.g. assigning default account passwords like "password01" that cannot be changed for three months, having a rule against any firewall other than the XP firewall (incoming traffic checks only) on laptops allowing Outlook Web Access over http rather than https etc.Its makes better headline in the media to say banning. When XP came out lots or big organisations and corporated waiting until SP1 before switching. We're still on SP1 and not SP2 at work.
.What's involved in setting up Outlook Web Access over https?
Well everything over http is in the clear so anybody could eavesdrop at any point between the user and the server whereas https is encrypted. Of course the email transferred over the secure link may itself be unencrypted in which case the information may be travelling in the clear between sender and recipient anyway.Interested to hear this as using Outlook web for years over http. Is the http "very" unsafe?
Any word on when MS will be declaring end of life/support for NT? There are still plenty of people running it happily but as soon as it stops getting patched then it's time to worry (unless it's run in a well firewalled quarantined environment).There don't seem to be any strong reasons to move unless you've moving from Windows NT, 95 or 98.
Any word on when MS will be declaring end of life/support for NT? There are still plenty of people running it happily but as soon as it stops getting patched then it's time to worry (unless it's run in a well firewalled quarantined environment).
LOLMicrosoft's 'OneCare' program (pronounciation?)
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