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Alternative_Dish740 t1_iuccqhe wrote

Reply to comment by diiejso in Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support by Tweho

My father had to resort to deliberately wearing out a machine's hard drive and corrupting the backup image to get his job to finally stop using Winblows 95 for some obscure business software that a handful of suits refused to upgrade from.

Of course blame shit hit the blades hard but at that point he was actually sick enough of the nightmare of supporting those machines in an XP environment that he was willing to risk getting fired or worse to get rid of them.

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OliverIsMyCat t1_iud5zbg wrote

Well if he had to go out of his way to break it, sounds like it was holding up just fine.

Remember, the probable function for your dad's job was to SUPPORT the computing needs of those suits. Of course he got shit for doing the literal opposite to make his own job easier.

Also, we're allowed to shit on IE. But Win95 was bomb.

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Alternative_Dish740 t1_iud7vgq wrote

It was only holding up fine because it was given top priority the minute anything looked like it wasn't, at the expense of multiple other systems.

And every time something actually DID break it took exponentially more time to fix because of the antiquated, shaky software and slow-ass hardware..

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Keudn883 t1_iudqwze wrote

Just because the older software is working doesn't mean risks don't exist. If the software isn't supported by the vendor anymore you are just one problem away from a massive amount unrecoverable data loss. If the software is no longer updated against modern security standards then it's just a door waiting to be breached.

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