• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Well, that was back when Windows was handcrafted by artisans in the silicon valley and packed lovingly onto organic floppy disks.

      They just don’t make 'em like they used to, with excellence in every byte.

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      A few weeks ago, I learned that we had an old server still running somewhere with Lotus Notes installed on it, and that we somehow need it for some critical system. ¯\(ツ)

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        As often as not that’s “I don’t want to budget to upgrade that system”. I appreciate it’s expensive, and if it isn’t broke don’t fix it, it may work forever. I hope it never bites you.

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          I mean for 1 of 72 warehouses, the monthly fees for licensing for managers and CSRs was $100k~. Think about 200 staff. Companies don’t want to sunset their license free programs.