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[–] 3023907? ago 

I agree, and I despise the IT department at my school. They are completely incompetent.
However, I am not allowed to have a windows computer on the the network without their 'control' over it. So if I want to say use my shared network drive, I have to sacrifice the control of the computers that run hundreds of thousands of dollars of scientific equipment.

Two years ago some asshole in the IT dep accidentally rolled up all XP computers to Win 7 across the entire campus! It took them months to fix everything they fucked up.

I short, I blame the bureaucracy.

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[–] Ghetto_Shitlord ago 

Jesus Christ, just updated everything to 7? Holy fuck! We have equipment that WILL NOT RUN on anything but xp, it's all old as hell, but as we replace it we are doing our best to find equipment that won't be locked to 7. We're testing W10 now, and will start rolling out in Jan / Feb. We're kind of stuck though as there are not many companies that make the stuff we need, but we have had some victories.

Trust me, there are very good reasons for tight control, your people just seem to fail at it. Our xp machines are on a separate VLAN, but we have a fileshare bridge so the scientists can move the data to their own computers for analysis.