Old PCsenvironmental hazard 3250

Migration can be planned. System crashes cannot. User training???

Define "defect". Do system die? Certainly. Particularly PC clbutt junk, though software (bit rot?) is more likely.

YOY does the world insist on M$? How many versions of Windows have there been in the last five years? A standardized platform makes things simpler, but I don't believe Win2K is available anymore.

Job security? The fun of playing with a new toy?

I could easily say the same thing about computer languages. Why do we need another one? Cobol worked just fine.

My oldest machine (K6-III-400) is about 6 years old. It's had the same OS (Win2K) for at least five of that. Even it's slowing down, but I haven't a clue why. My 2YO Opteron is quite a bit faster. ;-)

Win95, surely you jest! I wouldn't use that crap on a bet! Win2K was the only version of Windows I'd give two cents for, though XP is all there is now. I wouldn't use Windows at home at all if I could get support (mostly hardware) elsewhere. I went from OS-2 to Win2K because of hardware and haven't fully switched to Linux for the same reason.

I don't use Word at all. In fact the only program in the Office suite that's worth a bit is Excel. A given user may not use all the features of a program, but different users use different subsets of features.

-- Keith