This has been repeated almost everywhere in the corporate world.
The question is: why hasn't the Navy been on top of this? The end-of-life for Windows XP has been known for years, and expected for long before that.
Yes! They should have been prepared to immediately switch to Windows 8!
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They probably couldn’t get the budget approved - that’s the usual problem.
At my bank, we had a lot of trouble because all costs were charged back to the end users. Non-technical groups did want to cough up millions of dollars on their P&L statements to pay for an upgrade. We had to tell them that if they didn’t pay, their applications would be discontinued.
A surprisingly large number of applications were discontinued, as users discovered they were not as vital as they had thought....when they were faced with paying the bill!
In the real world, there is no “end of life” for XP.
For school kids and gamers, it may be another story, but the real world cannot trust the cloud’s lack of reliability.
It’s government.. I recently received the WIN-7 update if you can call it that. You have no admin privileges to take of issues, lots of useless programs taking up space and a spam blocker in email that lets all the porn, Nigerian scams, lotto winners etc through daily. My home system has better security & anti-virus/anti-spam capability. Not to mention the unbelievable cost per year per computer at $3600+ just to have one.