Survey: 45% of IT departments will move to Windows 7; 43% refuse to migrate off Windows XP

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Penny wise, pound foolish.

XP is unsecurable. Enterprise AV, all the tools, etc, it is fundamentally broken. All these enterprises deal with constant and unrelenting security threats. It really has no place in the enterprise if you care about security. Yes, the functionality works, but you are throwing all that money in constant scanning, patching, infection resolution (enterprise AV, that's a good joke, just an expensive label on a semi-useless product).

Any company holding onto XP like grim death is shooting themselves in the foot. Virtualize critical XP programs on Linux, or Windows 7. Run Windows 7 testing on older hardware, if it works, start looking to migrate. Where it's too old, identify the users who can "squeek by" with Linux. Crossover runs Office flawlessly and eliminates the underlying OS insecurity.

This is not about Linux over 7, not my intention, just that you need to dump in any way shape or form XP from the enterprise.

Aside, shame on MS for still pushing XP on netbooks, guaranteeing a roving botnet for many many years to come. I tried and hated Vista (came with my eMachine) before I dumped it, but dog slow and counter intuitive, if I had to use Windows, I would have used it over XP any day. Could they really have not stripped Vista to run on netbooks?

Oh well, until the next massive security threat takes over your networks or the weekly disinfect session from the latest threat the enterprise AV failed to protect, or the next massive security patch problem causes a few thousand person hours of lost productivity, hang onto it like grim death.

TripleII

Posted by: TripleII   Posted on: 07/01/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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