Time to service the Camel?

[nihil]

That's the Sopwith Camel...............a WWI biplane fighter aircraft

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/262087/g...ntil-2011.html

British "government" departmental proposals to upgrade from IE6.

And you guys thought that I was bullshitting when I told you about the amount of obsolete software used over here.

To save you Googling........... if you are stuck on IE6, you must almost certainly be running Windows 2000

[rcgreen]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[Linen0ise]

Find access to their networks, one can have a ball browsing admin shares on Windows 2000. Don't call microsoft for those problems....they hang up on you :0

[nihil]

Find access to their networks, one can have a ball browsing admin shares on Windows 2000.

Nah! I've got it sorted, I will upgrade them to XP Home

Don't call microsoft for those problems.

Can you give some examples of the problems, I am intrigued?

Also:

1. Doesn't the same apply to XP (Pro of course )?

2. Is this when you have an extended support contract with MS? I know that Win 2000 is approaching EOL so won't have the regular support, but I thought you could still get extended support if you paid?

[SirDice]

To save you Googling........... if you are stuck on IE6, you must almost certainly be running Windows 2000

XP has IE6 as standard.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

IE6 was broken from the start

[nihil]

XP has IE6 as standard.

Indeed! however, I did use the word "stuck", as in: "cannot move from". That would only apply to Windows 2000.

In XP, the transition to IE7 or IE8 is pretty seamless.

[SirDice]

I dunno.. I still have IE6 on a few of my XP boxes... I never use it

I do have IE8 on my work laptop though.. Never did like IE7 so I'm probably going to skip that one on my own machines.