If it's “on a government client site” in Milton Keynes then it's Hanslope Park.
UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!
Freelance IT type? Know about the gubbins of Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003? Don’t care about all that IR35 guff? We’ve got great news – UK.gov wants to hire you. Strictly speaking the role is with an agency rather than the Almighty Government itself, but the Technical Architect vacancy specifies competency in "Windows 2003 …
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Friday 18th August 2017 09:48 GMT mark l 2
I don't think I have seen a machine running Vista in the wild since around 2009 when everyone had either 'downgraded' to XP or upgraded to 7.
Surely there can't be any good reason to leave machines on Vista in 2017 as I very much doubt there was any software written for Vista that wouldn't run on 7 or 10 and a upgrade is cheap enough.
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Friday 18th August 2017 10:54 GMT Prst. V.Jeltz
I recently had a user ask if they could put their windows 2000 laptop back on the network.
After saying no and confiscating it , i looked inside and saw mcafee last update was in 2003 , although some docs on the desktop (and the event log) suggested it had been used a bit in 2007 and 2009 - presumably offline.
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Friday 18th August 2017 11:43 GMT Korev
Instrument controllers?
Assuming this is for the boffinery at Hanslope Park then they may still have a lot of very specialist instrumentation which is driven by PCs running an older OS whose software breaks when the underlying OS is upgraded.
We have a number of PCs like this at $EMPLOYER which are firewalled off etc from the rest of the network.
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Friday 18th August 2017 22:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Potentially discriminatory advert
Advert doesn't actually specify that applicants need to hold a current UK security clearance...
However, it does indicate:
1. The technical architect role will be subject to DV vetting - so don't apply if you don't want to be intrusively vetted, and
2. An essential skill/experience required is of "High level Security Clearance" - so don't apply if you can't evidence how you gained this skill/experience.
Naturally, the fun part is conveying the relevant information in an unclassified document, namely your CV - that will be handled and seen by people who haven't been security cleared...
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Sunday 20th August 2017 14:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
You couldn't pay me enough
To support shoddy products created by Microturd any longer. 20 years of this shit is enough to make you go nuts.
Imagine if the army of M$ 1st / 2nd line support monkeys out there said, "enough is enuogh, we're no longer going to support your customer base". How long would Microfail last as a company?
Do end-users want to be beta-testers?
Any company that thinks it's a great idea to:
a) have a firewall but not enable it by default (XP pre-SP2), and also fail at incorprating egress filtering into said firewall
b) thinks its a great idea to hide the 3-letter extension by default because....well, just because.
Deserves neither support nor praise
I know one thing, if Microshite designed cars, we would see UI changes every other month, the steering wheel in the boot, the wheels on the roof and the engine in the passenger seat.
fucking muppets
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Monday 21st August 2017 07:24 GMT LewisCowles1986
Re: You couldn't pay me enough
Well, their revenue is about $300k per-head, so I'd imagine paying fewer support workers, the kernel of business experts at the very top would just pay themselves handsomely, pivot and have plenty left over.
It's a multi-national umbrella company, so they could start new companies and pay them and saddle the original debt, then wind them up... Ultimately nation-states lose when dealing with a Microsoft Level entity
Don't bet against the house (although professionally I'll only work on Linux, BSD or UNIX systems)
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Monday 21st August 2017 11:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: You couldn't pay me enough
@AC You forgot to name and shame with actual lousy products and "features" from Microsoft. How about:
- Windows 98
- Windows Millenium Edition
- Microsoft Bob
- Clippy
- The "ribbon" in Microsoft Word
- Silverlight
- Sharepoint
- Windows 8 (thanks, Steve Sinofski)
.......and that's only the cr*p that I can remember....theres's more....much more!
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Sunday 20th August 2017 19:28 GMT GrapeBunch
Milton Keynes. That's code for Bletchley.
There was a time you could tell the weft of a chap's tweed from the bold ollocks he wrote for Hell Reg. And when you gask oogle to do the interviewing for you, it says "Sorry, Dave, old chap, I could have done that for you last week." Will have to go bad to filtering out the ones with no Reginads in the ancestor list. Pity poor Charles.
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Monday 21st August 2017 16:09 GMT HellOnWheelz
Legacy support - it can make for a darn fine paycheck
We're still supporting .Net 2.1 framework legacy applications. And SQL 2010. And ASP classic. On IIS 8.0. Windows Server 2003. Corporate desktops are =all= Windows 7. I have to run a virtual Win 7 client on my remote Win 10 machine to even access my workspace.
Yes government contract clients. Corporate won't upgrade until MicroSoft pulls its support from a version (and then only if there is no way around it). I have a very decent paycheck. The other stuff? That's up to someone whose pay grade is higher than mine. I'm only one in this man's army.