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Keeping Your Software and Hardware Updated
End of Life.
It seems to arrive so quickly for technology. Most people live to what- 70? 75? Most software lives 5-7 years before you are forced to make a move to something new!
Dealing with software (and hardware) end of life can be daunting to computer users and especially to those writing the checks in businesses. It can be difficult fighting off the voice in your head that keeps repeating “Why am I about to spend more money on this? Everything is working, why am I being forced to use this new thing? The old one works fine!”
The recent of example of this is Google’s announcement that they will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) after March 1 of this year. Thus, anyone who continues to use this “old version” will find their Google Apps usage extremely frustrating to the point of being unusable.
I am no proponent of constantly buying the newest hardware or having the newest software just for the sake of keeping things up to date. It is important that consumers and especially business owners understand that the software and hardware life cycle is a part of your technology investment and must be budgeted for.
Operation Aurora is a great example of why you want to keep your software up to date and computers depreciate so quickly that keeping that hardware up to date or even repaired could be cost prohibitive. Your business should have a technology road map that outlines how all of these tasks are managed. Don’t fall victim to the “I’ll buy another when it breaks” or “I don’t want to install the newer version because it will break my software.” Find a way to do it. The consequences of not keeping up can be potentially disastrous.
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