Completely OT - bedtime for children

Unlike the world you work in, there are ways to enforce compliance that go beyond standard disciplinary action. That tends to assure that people don't do their own thing.

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Steve Firth
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Which results in computers running ancient versions of software with well-known security flaws.

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Mark

There are areas to work in where what may be a bit daft in another job can get you jail time. Messing about with computers in anything connected to a nuclear facility is likely to be on that list :-)

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Simon Finnigan

At least known flaws can be addressed.

SteveW

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Steve Walker

Well, you just paste that into Word. :P

Andy

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Andy Champ

Really? How about this?

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Andy Champ

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Andy Burns

Just about anything running WINE if you don't have 'Doze.

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John Williamson

The last time I looked, Office wouldn't run under Wine (unless you buy the CrossOver version) so do the Office viewers?

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Andy Burns

At least one sort of runs, according to this:-

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John Williamson

Iff you are allowed to install the patches, which seems to be a time consuming process in your organisation. Therefore many known vulnerabilities could be left for quite a while.

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Mark

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