In total you can save a lot by this approach, because you can install thin clients with the employees.Īnd it is easier to safeguard and admin a network where all installations happen on a central server, and the clients just need to be kept updated with a handful of programs, allowing them to communicate with the server. The benefit is that on the clients you only need low computing power. If the programs allow, you could even install the VMs with Win7 on a server, and give the client PCs access through Remote Desktop or similar solutions. This way you can stay updated with your computers, but can still operate the old software. Have you ever tried to run a modern OS on the computers, and install the Win7-dependent programs into a Virtual Machine, running Win 7 ? This is what you usually do in industry when you have control computers that can’t be updated.

My situation is unique in that the software packages I run are proprietary and work ideally for myself and my employees. For example, in my case I have certain old software programs that are running simply perfectly on win 7 (on 6 machines in my office) and upgrading to win 10 would create chaos. Some of us use windows 7 for very specific reasons ie: not just to avoid upgrading to win 10.

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