[LINK] Windows XP in business

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 17:40 +1000, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> In terms of recruitment in day-to-day business work (and not IT-based
> work), employing Gen-X or Gen-Y people who have only used Windows 7 or
> OS X or iOS is a bit of a challenge when it comes to telling them how
> to use WInXP. That's really the only point I was making...

Isn't that a bit of a truism? Employing people whose experience is
narrow always means there is a learning curve.

The real difficulty, I would have thought, would be in actually being
able to recruit *anyone* who would be prepared to work with such
dead-end technology. It's extreme in IT, but important even in non-IT
areas - running a dinosaur environment makes it hard to find people. Not
because the skills aren't there, but because people prefer not to be
trapped in old tech.

Regards, K.

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