Software companies don't want to support software older than 3 years old, generally. What's more, the old server, which is only about 5 years old, is REALLY slow because I did a downgrade install of the server OS on that too so that she could continue using old software, so it only sees a fraction of the 32GB of RAM installed.Įventually the day will come when that software simply won't work. She chose to run old systems and new systems both. She had to do that all at once because I tried to accommodate her and help her stay in the past. Long story short, she just had to buy 8 new machines and a new server because her old stuff simply won't run the new software. I was doing downgrade installs of XP on machines with a Windows 7 Pro license.
The day finally came when the new software just doesn't work on the old XP machines, which I was still building for her even after you couldn't get XP any more. For 10 years I have been screwing her over without realizing it. I finally came to the conclusion that it's just not possible.
For a long time I did everything I could to accommodate her, trying to get her systems which would run both the newest stuff she has to get every year and the oldest stuff she has. She is running versions of accounting software that just aren't compatible with anything past Windows XP. This customer has been in business for 20 years and insists that she needs every document she ever produced in the original software she produced it in. I would urge the customer to replace the accounting software now, like it or not, and I'll tell you why.
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