> My bosses side: > We have some older software written just for us that won't run on anything > but 95 and to upgrade them would cost money. > New equipment costs money. > Why upgrade everyone when only 1/2 the company needs to connect to the > parent company requiring the upgrade. > Windows 2000 is too hard to configure remotely. (I swear, those were his > words exactly.) He's concerned about the security settings that need to be > put in place.
ME has no security! > Windows 95 is going by the wayside. This is not prophecy, it's reality. > The few programs that require 95 are accounting based and could be > maintained as stand alone units available for the sole purpose of running > one or two old programs as needed. This would require the employees to move > to another terminal to complete their tasks for a few hours every other > week. A temporary fix to a problem that still needs addressed. Ever here of XP Compatibility mode? > Umm...by the way...he's already mailed out the ME disks with NO > instructions. His note (of which I was not copied on) apparently tells them > to call me and I will walk them through it on the phone. I learned this > just this morning. Warning! Red flag on Play! I bet that he made copies and sent them out. I would very sternly in writing explain to him the legal issues and take a firm stance that if they are all not separate licenses, you will not touch them and further report the illegal action to http://www.bsa.org/ John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
