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Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 day agoLol there is a pc with win xp at my job that is offline but its the only pc left with software we need. Apparently it won’t run on new stuff. I call bs but its survived this long somehow.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Question is has the company who made the software gone bust and is the software so nieche that no one else has made a replacement?
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Its software for a very specific widget that is still sold internationally from a vendor. Ppl could theoretically buy it directly from the vendor but we want to keep the premium i guess. once a year we get into problems with the widget and no one seems to know how it works. Like how? We sell hundreds a year. In fact it is so problematic we tell people to have the vendor service it than having our team do it. What a joke. Feels like massive bs that gets swept under rug every time.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
You could probably hire like 2 developers for a month to rewrite it in Rust and have an actually good product. Also make it work on Linux
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 21 hours ago
Rofl just told some of the managers about it. They didn’t know. Im gonna suggest this next. Bet they all laugh.