Comments on: Behind the times http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/behind-the-times/ Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steelcastingcomputephotoguy http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/behind-the-times/#comment-20 Steelcastingcomputephotoguy Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:44:47 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/behind-the-times/#comment-20 Having worked in the industry since 1973 I have noticed a major change in attitude since 1984, when the industry went from being an industry strictly being tools for automation and processing of redundant tasks to becoming a tool that had not only the driving factor of solving problems to also being influenced by the need of repeat customers repurchasing new versions of their current solution due to retail obsolescence.

For instance, there are people who have never used advanced features of any of the Microsoft office products that have had to get new versions because old versions were not backwards compatible. I confess, my use of Word Processing, spreadsheets could be done on spellbinder and visicalc. They just won’t work on the new systems. Earlier versions of same type of windows products will also not work with new systems.

There are some things functionally in my photography work that just seem to work better on Windows 98 than XP or Vista. Ask many who have lived through Microsoft printer drive problems and print quality issues with XP. We had to stay for the longest time on Windows 98 to get good print quality on printer that had been purchased new.

The 98 to XP was not that bad of a migration, but the anything to Vista and 7 is much different as the cosmetics have changed. Also, it seems that some vertical application software products still do not respect various aspects of the newer operating systems, especially security, which causes implementation problems.

With going from 98 to 7 would need to be a data transfer and reintegration with newer versions. A good time to analyze the situation….. maybe even go linux or mac……

]]> By: JennyMack http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/behind-the-times/#comment-18 JennyMack Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:56:05 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/brien-posey/behind-the-times/#comment-18 I have seen a handful of people I know still using Windows 98 and 2000…. if they see no immediate reason to change, they won’t. Usually this issue of “antiquated” operating systems is resolved by “force” — when a computer dies, the new one comes with updated software. Other than that, in their minds, it’s often “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

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