Not old tech
but where I work the IT department is so clueless about IT that the PC's are still P4's running XP and in some cases Win 98. They refused to update beyond Internet Explorer 6 for the past 2 years stating that they cannot verify the security of Firefox or IE 7. During one of the many meeting I have attended with them, me and other technical staff have tried to make them see sense but they simply refuse, stating that older is more secure, and I quote:

"The vast majority of virus' are written for more advanced browsers, by not upgrading we are protecting our network"

Never mind the 20 odd un-patched security exploits then?

Last month they finally allowed staff to download IE7

Next is the new building we are moving into at Media City in Salford Quays. When we submitted our equipment list for the various hardware we needed they questioned it:

"Why do you need so many apple macs?" said one manager as he rested his cup of tea on his gut.

"Well we use Final Cut Pro Studio, coupled with Pro Tools for audio post production. We only use a few PC's for Maya, but it runs in OS X too so we can work in one platform with no compatibility issues" says we

"Can't you just install Final Cut in Windows XP? that would save a lot of cash and we could use a lot of our current PC's that we have across the department now"

You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife but look on the bright side, last weeks memo stated that they have begun research on Internet Explorer 8.
( Bamboo Steamer, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:46, 2 replies)

You don't.....
...work for these people, do you?

www.oasisuk.org/
(django0909, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 6:56, closed)

Here
Clue them up a bit:

osvdb.org/vendor/1152-microsoft-corporation/6

vs

osvdb.org/vendor/1481-mozilla-organization/1

(some scrolling may be involved)
( Legionary - My god, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:26, closed)