any IT department that suggests otherwise is totally irresponsible, and dare I say ignorant.
They more than likely aren't saying that to be honest.
But the accountants are blocking it. They have memory's back to Y2K.
Even if they can hold off paying out the cash for 6 months they see it as good business.
One should not underestimate the amount of secondary legacy software out there that rely's on the old OS
I don't I can think of 4 applications our engineers use that can't be ported onto modern laptops because they rely on the Rs232 port. And upgrading the software costs a 5 figure sum. And they need the internet to fire the data up to the OEM's database. Must go and clone them again actually. 2 of them are NT4 one is win95 and the other 98. Including software upgrades it would cost in the region of 250k to replace them.