The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8

Re:The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8 by devx on Sunday October 27, 2013 @01:11PM (#6622562)

The good news for those organizations is that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is coming out in the same month Windows XP's support is expiring. If they are ever going to move off Windows (especially governmental institutions), now it's the best time to do it, with them moving off XP, and with Windows 8 being so schizophrenic, radical, and generally enterprise-hostile.

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Re:The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8 by greenyoda on Sunday October 27, 2013 @02:17PM (#6622814)

I don't think it's likely that a huge corporation whose entire IT infrastructure was built around Windows and Microsoft software would migrate to Linux. It would be a big technical and political risk for the executives: if something went wrong, the company would be seriously hurt and they'd be fired. Upgrading to a newer version of Windows would be technically easier and politically much, much safer.

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Re:The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8 by stephenr on Sunday October 27, 2013 @02:20PM (#6622825)

Ok so let’s say a big company/government agency decides to migrate off of Windows, and onto Linux. This much has happened before.

Why then, would this organisation that obviously has some kind of IT staff who have some kind of training and experience, pick Ubuntu?

It’s like saying “I want Linux, but with all the shitty bits of Windows added in by default for me”.

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Re:The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8 by shearnie on Sunday October 27, 2013 @03:17PM (#6623062)

Assuming a Linux migration was on the cards, how would you go about supporting office excel spreadsheets with VBA code, VB6 Winform apps and intranet sites optimised for IE6?

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